Quotes about Heritage

Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God.

Religious liberty is the salt and light that has made us the great nation we are in a whole number of ways.

I knew I was born at the North but hoped nobody would find it out. I looked upon the misfortune as something so shrouded by time and distance that maybe nobody remembered it.

I'm the granddaughter of immigrants.

We have become a throwaway society. Instead of honoring and preserving our past, we tear it down, shove it aside, and just go on our merry way. Well, I won't have it. We have to stand firm for what we believe in. Only in the most dire circumstances should a structure of historical significance be demolished.

I'll tell my darling the story of the determined woman in my family tree who wholeheartedly believed that we're all here by design . . . that none of us is an accident in God's eyes. Our heavenly Father's hand is at work in all of our comings and goings—and in the choice of a life mate.

The First Amendment does not require students to leave their religion at the schoolhouse door. … If students can wear T-shirts advertising sports teams, rock groups or politicians, they can also wear T-shirts that promote religion. … Religion is too important to our history and our heritage for us to keep it out of our schools.

I am the daughter of Black writers who are descended from Freedom Fighters who broke their chains and changed the world. They call me.

My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.

I am at the top of Toyota and drive cars myself. I was also born with this name.

We stand together as we did two centuries ago, One people under God determined that our future shall be worthy of our past.

... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.