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.
— John Updike
If the family goes, so goes our civilization.
— Ronald Reagan
The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
— Pope John Paul II
Be true to who you are and the family name you bare.
— Gordon Hinckley
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
— Heinrich Heine
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.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.
— Martha Graham
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
— Cicero
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?
— Cicero
The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
— Cicero
The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.
— Mark Batterson
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.
— Mark Batterson