Best Heritage Quotes

Take away a nation’s heritage and they are more easily persuaded.

I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature’s wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.

If we lose our heritage of health and vigor, all the beauty that has been achieved will be for naught!

The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

But Barack Obama is not a person who would defend the rights and heritage of the European-American people.

I can only display what I’ve been nurtured with, which is this worldview which has become my view. If I displayed anything different from it in my work, I wouldn’t deserve this heritage.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

When I took the job as Estée Lauder’s creative director, the first thing I did was go into the archives! I love taking our heritage and making it modern.

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

Beauty is my heritage, but home decor is very much my passion.

I am not a Hispanic candidate. I am an American candidate who happens to be of Hispanic heritage, who understands the culture, who has worked the border and has a unique understanding of those issues. But rest assured my job is to represent all Americans as a U.S. senator.

Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.

I’d say that my identity is really a culinary identity, so the way I relate to my national heritage is through its cuisine.

You want to try to find your heritage.

I’ve known where my heritage is from all along.

Sport is part of every man and woman’s heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

My German heritage, it’s through food. Growing up in Switzerland, the thing that I remember the most is the food. And so the way that I experience people and places is through that – through its food and cuisine.

Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran

Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage.

School textbooks have almost completely excised any reference to America’s true religious heritage.

In ’71 or ’72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage.

My parents’ names were Florian and Mabel Smith. My mother’s maiden name was Dersam. They were of German heritage and were part of a family community with my grandparents and uncles and relatives. I was an only child.

I have published in ‘The New Yorker,’ ‘Holiday,’ ‘Life,’ ‘Mademoiselle,’ ‘American Heritage,’ ‘Horizon,’ ‘The Ladies Home Journal,’ ‘The Kenyon Review,’ ‘The Sewanee Review,’ ‘Poetry,’ ‘Botteghe Oscure,’ the ‘Atlantic Monthly,’ ‘Harper’s.’

UNESCO provides protection for the great cultural institutions. There is something called the intangible cultural heritage list. And the Italians want to put Neapolitan pizza on it. But in order to do that, you have to show that whatever it is that you’re trying to protect is under threat. And pizza is totally under threat from Pizza Hut and Domino’s…

Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a ‘cultural Christian’ who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.

Postmodern theatre seems unwilling to listen to talk about textual or theatrical heritage, which it treats as no more than memory in the technical sense of that word, as an immediately available and reusable memory bank.

I thought of a great way to celebrate my Finnish heritage at home. I’m going to look into opening a chain of strip clubs, and I’ll call them Lapland!!!

Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.

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

Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.

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.

What the Negro wants – and will not stop until he gets – is absolute and unqualified freedom and equality here in this land of his birth, and not in Africa or in some imaginary state. The Negro no longer will be tolerant of anything less than his due right and heritage. He is pursuing only that which he knows is honorably his. He knows that he is right.

We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time – and perceive ourselves as part of a long heritage, and stewards for an immense future.