Quotes about Heritage

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...

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.

The West is cutting off its Jewish and Christian roots and destroying the entire root system of its culture

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

One generation shall commend your works to another" (v. 4).

Courage as an element of faith is the daring self-affirmation of one's own being in spite of the powers of "non-being" which are the heritage of everything finite.

These first seven books are Israel's stories of their deep past, or "origins stories" as they are sometimes called. They don't exist for entertainment or for idle curiosities about the past (and definitely not as fodder for children's Bible lessons). They explain how things came to be, why things are the way they are, and most important, how Israel got to be Israel—a kingdom with a land of its own.

Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methusael, and Methusael was the father of Lamech.

And after he had become the father of Seth, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.