Quotes about Heritage
You have a heritage honor it. You have a testimony share it. You will face temptations withstand it. You know the truth live it.
— Thomas Monson
And Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath gave birth to Reuel,
— Genesis 36:4
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
— Malcolm X
American music comes from the same tree, but sometimes we get to these places in history where we forget where things come from, and they get compartmentalized.
— Kamasi Washington
Given that we are all descended from Adam and Eve, genetic defects as a result of intra-family marriage would not begin to crop up until after the first few dozen generations.
— Hugh Ross
“The land is to be divided among the tribes as an inheritance, according to the number of names.
— Numbers 26:53
the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim,
— Luke 3:30
What are you called? Georgette. How are you called? Jacob. That's a Flemish name. American too. You're not Flamand? No, American. Good, I detest Flamands.
— Ernest Hemingway
A Melungeon. She ain't white, she ain't colored, she ain't Injun. Ain't any one a them three kinds would claim her. Ain't just any fool'd take a chance on her, neither. Them Melungeons been hidin' up in these mountains long's anyone can remember. Got a certain look to 'em, like her—dark skin, but not red like a Injun. Black hair, and them cold blue eyes.
— Lisa Wingate
from the descendants of Elam, Jeshaiah son of Athaliah, and with him 70 men;
— Ezra 8:7
Tell my father about all my splendor in Egypt and everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.”
— Genesis 45:13
those registered to the tribe of Naphtali numbered 53,400.
— Numbers 1:43