Quotes about Heritage

Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, and Brown all began as Christian institutions

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

Every deed has a seed. In other words, the deeds you choose to do in this lifetime create a seed for future generations.

Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.

Your ancestors are a ladder; upon them climb.

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

The heritage mattered, but the hope was all-important—hope for a new world, for the One God to become king at last.

The Christian religion, hand in hand with various philosophical outlooks, has motivated, sanctioned, and shaped large portions of the Western scientific heritage. Modern Christians ought to drink deeply at the well of historical precedent. If we do, we will never feel intimidated by positivists and others who deny that religion has any role in genuine scholarship. In the broad scope of history, that claim is itself a temporary aberration-a mere blip on the screen, already beginning to fade.

It is becoming clear that much of what used to be considered common sense is not common at all. Instead it is a product of the West's distinctively Christian heritage. Today it can no longer be simply assumed. It has to be intentionally articulated and defended.

Clearly I did not inherit whatever gene it is that makes it so that when you linger in a place you start to put down roots.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

Could such a many-chambered edifice have stood a century and a half and not have had its passages of romance to bequeath their lingering legends to the after-time?... It was a great happiness to have been born in an old house haunted by such recollections, with harmless ghosts walking its corridors, with fields of waving grass and trees and singing birds...