Quotes about Heritage

The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father's opinions and even into those of our grandfathers.

If the family goes, so goes our civilization.

The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.

Be true to who you are and the family name you bare.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.

The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.

When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was comforted by a piece of poetry given to her by a friend: They are not dead who live in lives they leave behind: In those whom they have blessed they live a life again.