Quotes about Heritage
American music comes from the same tree, but sometimes we get to these places in history where we forget where things come from, and they get compartmentalized.
- Kamasi Washington
I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
What I leave behind has a life of its own.
- Audre Lorde
What I leave behind has a life of its own.
- Audre Lorde
The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.
- Elbert Hubbard
Aptitud suple antigüedad.
- Elbert Hubbard
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
- Elias Canetti
Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.
- Elie Wiesel
For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.
- Madeleine Albright
Leaving the Great House, my presence became known to the colored people, some of whom were children of those I had known when a boy. They all seemed delighted to see me, and were pleased when I called over the names of many of the old servants
- Frederick Douglass
The family tree of earthly ancestors was really not important; what was important was the family tree of the children of God He planted on Calvary.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
- Winston Churchill