Heritage famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.
-- Abdelaziz Bouteflika -
Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.
-- Abdus Salam -
The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.
-- Abdus Salam -
Beauty is my heritage, but home decor is very much my passion,
-- Aerin Lauder -
Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.
-- Albert J. Nock -
The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.
-- Alex Haley -
You have to stay true to your heritage; that's what your brand is about.
-- Alice Temperley -
Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
-- Alice Walker -
This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.
-- Allen Weinstein -
A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.
-- Andre Malraux -
Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights of the spirit.
-- Andrea Bocelli -
The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
-- Ben Harper -
In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.
-- Bernard Arnault -
Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.
-- Betty Shabazz -
If we lose our heritage of health and vigor, all the beauty that has been achieved will be for naught!
-- Bill Munson -
I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.
-- Brad Pitt -
It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.
-- Branch Rickey -
Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands, And of armèd men the hum; Lo, a nation's hosts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum Saying, Come, Freemen, Come! Ere your heritage be wasted, Said the quick alarming drum.
-- Bret Harte -
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.
-- Bruce Babbitt -
Let us designate anarchism1 anarchism as you define it. Let us desiginate anarchism2 anarchism as I and the American Heritage College Dictionary define it.
-- Bryan Caplan -
You will be what you are, and whatever it is, you will be fine. Everyone has to accept that and love you for who you are; it doesn’t really matter where your heritage comes from
-- C.C. Hunter -
When you realize that prosperity is your divine heritage, you should persist in claiming it.
-- Catherine Ponder -
I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.
-- Chen-Ning Yang -
I know Im British. I havent spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasnt British, what would I be? I am British.
-- Chris Froome -
... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.
-- D. A. Carson -
Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.
-- Darl McBride -
But Barack Obama is not a person who would defend the rights and heritage of the European-American people.
-- David Duke -
It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.
-- David R. Brower -
Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer.
-- Dorothy Fuldheim -
Tradition and heritage are all dead peoples baggage. Stop carrying it. Move forward.
-- Doug Stanhope -
A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is about learning that molds a lifetime, learning that transmits the heritage of millennia; learning that shapes the future
-- Drew Gilpin Faust -
The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.
-- E. M. Forster -
I'm proud of my Native American heritage,
-- Elizabeth Warren -
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.
-- Feisal Abdul Rauf -
I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to … turn my back on a great and noble heritage.
-- Felix Frankfurter -
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia... Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe. The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today.
-- Fred Hoyle -
I was born in Morocco and lived there until I was 13; I'm really proud of my heritage.
-- French Montana -
Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has invariably remained his search for chess truth.
-- Garry Kasparov -
It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed to it by the founders of the Republic.
-- George B. Cortelyou -
Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.
-- George McGovern -
Conservatism has always meant more to me than simply sticking up for private property & free enterprise. It has also meant defending our heritage & preserving our values.
-- Gerald R. Ford -
The Literary and Artistic heritage of humanity should be used for partisan propaganda purposes.
-- Gil J Wolman -
The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts.
-- Gordon Gee -
Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.
-- Gustav Stresemann -
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.
-- Harlan Lane -
If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
-- Harri Holkeri -
I don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican.
-- Harry Reid -
To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers.
-- Henrietta Szold -
An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.
-- Hosni Mubarak -
The great Roman statesman Cicero observed that, 'Not to know what happened before one was born is to be always a child.' In our ignorance of the values that form part of our history and heritage, we Americans have become perpetual children.
-- Ilana Mercer -
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.
-- Ioan Gruffudd -
To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.
-- Irvin S. Cobb -
Agriculture and intercultural dialogue: our common heritage.
-- Jacques Diouf -
The aim of education is to guide young persons in the process through which they shape themselves as human persons-armed with knowledge, strength of judgment, and moral virtues-while at the same time conveying to them the spiritual heritage of the nation and the civilization in which they are involved.
-- Jacques Maritain -
I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect.... For after all, they could be my people.
-- James A. Michener -
There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.
-- James D. Watson -
Visual presentation of our heritage in glass is needed.
-- James Lafferty -
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.
-- Jamie Bamber -
The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.
-- Jean Baudrillard -
Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.
-- Jean-Henri Fabre -
When you think about your heritage, you think about toughness and hard work.
-- Jeff Garcia -
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.
-- Jhumpa Lahiri -
But when you come to Heritage USA, remember to bring your Bible and your VISA card - because the Bible is the Holy Truth, and God doesnt take American Express
-- Jim Bakker -
Frankly, if independents and Democrats want to work with us on conservative ideas, I can do that better at Heritage than as a partisan inside.
-- Jim DeMint -
To deny this is to deny our own heritage, our own spirit, and our own souls.
-- John Denver -
The fact that previous generations have handed down to us a substantial public heritage by way of roads, port, etc. almost completely free of debt, seems to me to impose some limitation on the validity of the theory that by borrowing we should, or could, pass on the burden of development to the next generation.
-- John James Cowperthwaite -
Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong.
-- Judy Chicago -
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.
-- June Jordan -
The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.
-- Lesley Garrett -
Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.
-- Lisa Unger -
Hopefully, the drivers will be able to race without running over one another. Anything with a heritage like this racetrack, I would not have messed with it. I would have saved my money.
-- Mark Martin -
Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive...
-- Marla Gibbs -
the virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.
-- Marsden Hartley -
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.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
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.
-- Michael Chekhov -
I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture...
-- Michael Flatley -
Kandinsky in Munich uttered the well known words: 'Everything is permitted!' In 1961; we still live by this heritage, which in truth is inexhaustible.
-- Michel Seuphor -
People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.
-- Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned -
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.
-- Naguib Mahfouz -
All my songs are based on melody, which is retrieved from my Jewish heritage. Melody will always exist no matter what the rhythmic changes there are.
-- Neil Diamond -
Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.
-- Nelly Furtado -
My heritage is English, so I'm proud to be back here.
-- Nicholas Lea -
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month provides us all an opportunity to reflect upon this communitys many contributions and to celebrate its bright future.
-- Nydia Velazquez -
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!!!
-- Pamela Anderson -
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.
-- Patrice Pavis -
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.'
-- Paul Engle -
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.
-- Paul Prudhomme -
Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage.
-- Paul Robeson -
Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
-- Pierre de Coubertin -
If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.
-- Ray Davies -
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.
-- Rick Yune -
You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.
-- Robbie Robertson -
It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers.
-- Robert Byrd -
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.
-- Robert H. Jackson
