Best 274 quotes in «heritage quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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

Visual presentation of our heritage in glass is needed.

We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas.

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

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

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

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.