Best 274 quotes in «heritage quotes» category

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

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

The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas.

Visual presentation of our heritage in glass is needed.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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 will build a Marine Corps based on 36 battalions, which the Heritage Foundation notes is the minimum needed to deal with major contingencies. Right now we only have 23.

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.

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.

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.

We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.

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 realize that prosperity is your divine heritage, you should persist in claiming it.

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.

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

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

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.

You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.

Yeah, my family is of Indian heritage.

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

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

All of our ancestors give us the precious gift of life. Do we use it wisely? Do we use it well? Do we make a name for ourselves and for our children of which we can be proud?

Anecdotes came with his DNA.