Best 274 quotes in «heritage quotes» category

It's worse than slave trade because what is being traded is the very knowledge that makes survival possible for 80 percent of the people of this world. These 80 percent live on the biodiversity and the knowledge they have evolved as part of a rich collective heritage involving the use of seeds for growing crops and medicinal plants for healing.

I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage, so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi, Pavarotti, DiMaggio, Valentino, De Niro, Giuliani. . .

I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007.

I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage." People who had never heard of, or cared about, the originals cried "sacrilege": "The classics are ours. Leave the classics alone." To them all my answer was and is the same: You "respect," but I love.

Kandinsky in Munich uttered the well known words: 'Everything is permitted!' In 1961; we still live by this heritage, which in truth is inexhaustible.

I was latching on to something that was part of my heritage, because many of the slaves who were brought here were Moslems.

I was born in Morocco and lived there until I was 13; I'm really proud of my heritage.

I would not give up a lot of what I know about my heritage. I would not give up knowing where I came from, the good parts and the bad parts.

Lord of himself; that heritage of woe!

My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.

Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage.

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

Moke Kupihea has the strength of conviction necessary to impart to the world a more sensitive account of Hawaiian kahuna heritage, which comes down to him from the priesthood line from which he descends.

Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality.

My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.

One of the movements we have developed is to say that, just as intellectual property rights protect the inventions of individuals, common rights are needed to protect the common intellectual heritage of indigenous peoples. These are rights that are recognized through the Convention on Biological Diversity. We are working to make sure that they become foundations of our jurisprudence.

My mother gave me one piece of advice that stuck with me. She said don't forget where you came from.

Once you leave Sundance suddenly you run into bulldozers and concrete and cranes, and all that heritage that the Mormon culture used to be so proud of is turned into out of control develpoment.

Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.

Our rich and varied cultural heritage has a profound power to help build our nation

Our heritage as actors goes back thousands of years, and we have to feel as comfortable in the clothes, and the language of Sophocles as we do in our sneakers.

Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.

Our language and literature are without a doubt Britain's greatest contribution to the cultural heritage of the world.

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

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.

Part of my heritage being Korean, it's going to be interesting going to Korea and answering these questions dealing with North and South Korea.

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.

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.

Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong.

Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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