Quotes about Heritage
I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.
- Denzel Washington
The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Marrying a woman of priestly ancestry was a special blessing.
- Liz Curtis Higgs
If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under. ~Ronald Reagan
- Ronald Reagan
America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety.
- Ronald Reagan
The consciousness of being borne up by a spiritual tradition that goes back for centuries gives one a feeling of confidence and security in the face of all passing strains and stresses.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation.
- John Maxwell
I knew I must do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a long-ago ancestor. Perhaps my mind was inflamed from the books I had read and the worlds I had imagined.
- Alice Hoffman
Whatever belonged to you once, will always belong to you.
- Alice Hoffman
We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children, and, if necessary, bone by bone.
- Alice Walker
Our mothers taught us that in the old, old days, when they were their grandmothers and their grandmothers were old—for we are our grandmothers, you understand, only with lots of new and different things added
- Alice Walker
And we kneeled down right on deck and gave thanks to God for letting us see the land for which our mothers and fathers cried — and lived and died — to see again
- Alice Walker