Quotes about Heritage
We stand together as we did two centuries ago, One people under God determined that our future shall be worthy of our past.
— Ronald Reagan
... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.
— Cormac McCarthy
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.
— Karl Barth
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.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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.
— Henry Ward Beecher
He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.
— Edmund Burke
He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.
— Edmund Burke
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.
— George W. Bush
He restored the Bible to its people, he restored the people to the Bible.
— Shimon Peres
My greatest hope is that our children, like our forefathers, will continue to plow the historical Jewish furrow in the field of the human spirit; that Israel will become the center of our heritage, not merely our homeland; and that the Jewish people will both be inspired by others and a continued source of inspiration.
— Shimon Peres
The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins.
— Jimmy Carter
For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization.
— Ronald Reagan