Quotes about Heritage
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
Or are they saying simply that they can not and will not be bothered to listen to what is said about an accepted tradition of which they are a part, that has gone on, as far as they know, forever?
— Alice Walker
We will not hide them from their children; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, his power, and the wonders he has done. PSALM 78:4
— Joel Osteen
There are only two lasting bequests that we can hope to give our children — roots and wings.
— Anonymous