Heritage Quotes - Page 5

• I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to 'Anarchy' or 'Despotism'.

  George Washington

  Yield, America, Hazards

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.406

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• Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.

  William Wordsworth

  Eye, Philosopher, Blind

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.442

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• To deny this is to deny our own heritage, our own spirit, and our own souls.

  John Denver

  Soul, Spirit, Deny

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• In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we have a Christian heritage.

  Rick Scarborough

  Christian, Religious, Past

  Rick Scarborough (2008). “Enough is Enough”, p.40, Frontline

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• I have always been fascinated with guns. I grew up in America so granted, it is part of our heritage and it is written into the laws of how this country is run.

  Joe Perry

  Running, Country, Gun

  "Aerosmith leader Joe Perry talks 'Sons of Guns,' classic firearms, defending the Second Amendment" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2012.

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• Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Men, Giving, Freedom Of Speech

  Thurgood Marshall, Mark V. Tushnet (2001). “Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences”, p.11, Chicago Review Press

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• The description you have been given of the world is an aberrant one. It does not accept and give proper place to the nagual, to the mysterious unknown that is our heritage.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Giving, Doe

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• When I feel like I'm renowned enough, I'd love to do a heritage-type line, but that takes time.

  Tinie Tempah

  Lines, Enough, Type

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• You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage.

  H. Rap Brown

  Black, Define Yourself

  H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin) (2002). “Die Nigger Die!: A Political Autobiography of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin”, p.62, Chicago Review Press

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• Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cultivate and not cultivate.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Thinking, Want, Good And Bad

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• In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and through an experience of the eternal mystery, can give them a sense of the sacredness of all creation.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Music, Giving, People

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• This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance halls, and city parks, and about how his own Paps, how he had beat him, how he taught him to dance, as if we could hear Spanish in his movements, as if Puerto Rico was a man in a bathrobe, grabbing another beer from the fridge and raising it to drink, his head back, still dancing, still steeping and snapping perfectly in time.

  Justin Torres

  Beer, Men, Cities

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• You have a heritage honor it. You have posses a testimony share it. You will face temptations withstand it. You know the truth live it.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Temptation, Honor, Faces

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• Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

  Robert Kennedy

  Religious, Freedom, Men

  Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “A New Day: Robert F. Kennedy”

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• I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

  Larry David

  Years, Empty Life, Generations

  "Larry David: The Man Behind Seinfeld". The Laugh Factory Magazine Interview, www.laughfactory.com. April 1994.

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• If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

  Ray Davies

  New Orleans, World, Disappear

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• We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas.

  Jim Ryun

  Strong, Kansas, Agriculture

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• I think a lot of what I was taught, gathered, and learned is worth keeping. Heritage and "wisdom" and simply personal family and local history enrich the one able to tap such information. As it is I wish I had garnered more from my grandparents and parents.

  Gary Gygax

  Thinking, Grandparent, Wish

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• Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

  Nelly Furtado

  Brazil, Portugal, Portuguese

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• A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Hope, Courage, Heart

  Richard Watson Gilder (1885). “Lyrics”

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• To say that the Afro American created jazz doesn't mean anything bad about Anglo Americans, and I always teach my younger jazz musicians that at this point the entirety of the American tradition is your heritage, and you need to know it.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Mean, Musician, Needs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The fact that we are culturally ignorant and we don't know what our heritage is, the price that we pay is that we act outside of ourselves almost all the time. We make very bad decisions how we deal with other people and their culture.

  Wynton Marsalis

  People, Decision, Ignorant

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world?

  William Morris

  Art, Ornaments, Restoration

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.233, Cambridge University Press

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• Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the Bible. Wine has been praised for centuries by statesmen, philosophers, poets, and scholars. Wine in moderation is an integral part of our culture, heritage and gracious way of life.

  Robert Mondavi

  Wine, Civilization, Culture

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• Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.

  Jacque Fresco

  People, World, Demand

  "The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War". Book by Jacque Fresco, 2002.

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