Quotes about Heritage

I have learned to hate every drop of white rapist blood that is in me

I walk in Nature's way until I shall lie down and rest, breathing my last in this from which I draw my daily breath, and lying down on this from which my father drew his vital seed, my mother her blood, my nurse her milk; from which for so many years I am fed and watered day by day; which bears my footstep and my misusing it for so many purposes.

Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.

Books and characters in books, pictures and elements in pictures—they all have families and ancestors, just like people.

Canada is built on dead beavers.

Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will.

Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

Same way I have my entire life. Keep my family and friends close. My Latino friends close. I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can.

I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

To cut ourselves off from the past is to rob ourselves from understanding the present.