Best 274 quotes in «heritage quotes» category

She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.

Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.

So you go to Brookings, or you go to Heritage or others, they know their position on any subject before they research it. If you go to an investment bank, they know what parts of the world they are going to cover and what parts of the world they are not going to cover depending on client interest. We cover the world without being skewed by that. And that makes it more valuable.

Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.

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

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

Sure, companies say they're sensitive to their employees' cultural heritages, but show up on casual Friday wearing a necklace made from the ears of your vanquished enemies and all hell breaks loose.

The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.

The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.

The German people of today bear no guilt. Why are the German people not permitted the right to defend themselves? Why are the crimes of one group emphasized so greatly, instead of highlighting the great German cultural heritage? Why should the Germans not have the right to express their opinion freely?

The Literary and Artistic heritage of humanity should be used for partisan propaganda purposes.

The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.

The Federalist Society has made important contributions to the nation's understanding of our constitutional heritage.

The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present.

The interests of the deaf child and his parents may best be served by accepting that he is a deaf person, with an elaborate cultural and linguistic heritage that can enrich his parent's life as it will his own.

The murderer only takes the life of the parent and leaves his character as a goodly heritage to his children, whilst the slanderer takes away his goodly reputation and leaves him a living monument to his children's disgrace.

The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

The South is a great driving destination for tourism - heritage, cultural and many other types of tourism.

The partition of India in 1947 legitimized the forces of masculinist nationalism and enabled hatred for the "other" to irreparably mutilate a shared anti-colonial legacy and cultural heritage so systematically that the wounds inflicted by the partition are yet to heal.

The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.

The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.

The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts.

The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it.

The religious heritage sort of suggests implicitly and explicitly that you pay your dues and you get your reward later on, that's a little inconsistent with the notion of personal, happiness. I am a strong believer in a set of values that are rooted in the notion of happiness and personal fulfillment.

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

... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.

The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.

The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.

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

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.

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

We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas.

We have been the benefactors of our cultural heritage and the victims of our cultural narrowness.

Visual presentation of our heritage in glass is needed.

We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the complete, constantly unfolding, complicated heritage that is our black experience. We should absolutely resist the superstar, one at a time mentality that threatens the varied and resilient, flexible wealth of our Black future.

We must vigilantly stand on guard within our own borders for human rights and fundamental freedoms which are our proud heritage......w e cannot take for granted the continuance and maintenance of those rights and freedoms.

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.

A father's aim is to raise children who themselves raise good citizens.

We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.

What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage Whose world, or mine or theirs or is it of none? First came the seen, then thus the palpable Elysium, though it were in the halls of hell. What thou lovest well is thy true heritage.

What we deplore is not that the gate of western knowledge was thrown open to Indians, but that such knowledge was imported to India at the sacrifice of our own cultural heritage. What was needed was a proper synthesis between the two systems and not neglect, far less destruction, of the Indian base.

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

When I started meditating, even doing yoga, I felt like it was hard to allow myself to develop any other kind of practice [outside of Judaism], like I was somehow being untrue to my heritage, and that was something I had to get over and was probably the greatest revelation to me.

When you think about your heritage, you think about toughness and hard work.

Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the intelligentsia has followed.

Why be narrow-minded, why cut ourselves off from any of these rich heritages when… we have the freedom to make the most of the best in all techniques? There are no prohibitions against it. All it takes is a little wisdom, imagination and courageous experimentation.

World Government is not only possible, it is inevitable; and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its truest sense,in its only sense, the patriotism of humans who love their national heritages so deeply that they wish to preserve them in safety for the common good.

You have to stay true to your heritage, that's what your brand is about.