Quotes about Heritage

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

We honor the heritage of all who come here, no matter where they come from, because we trust in our country's genius for making us all Americans - one nation under God.

The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins.

For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization.

Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one's youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. PSALM 127:3—5

All I got to do is stay black and die.

If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased."-Maya Angelou

I made no attempt to wipe away the tears. I could not claim a forefather who came to America on the Mayflower. Nor did any ancestor of mine amass riches to leave me free from toil. My great-grandparents were illiterate when their fellow men were signing the Declaration of Independence, and the first families of my people were bought separately and sold apart, nameless and without traces — yet there was this: 'Deep River My home is over Jordan.