Quotes about Heritage

I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn.

The whole inspiration of our life as a nation flows out from the waving folds of this banner.

This day [Passover] shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations.

How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!

Thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

Black power… is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to begin to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations and to support those organizations. It is a call to reject the racist institutions and values of this society.

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights, which they have delivered to our care: we owe it to our posterity, not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

Is not this the carpenter's son?

All these were honored in their generations, and were the glory of their times.There be of them, that have left a name behind them, that their praises might be reported.And some there be, which have no memorial; who are perished, as though they had never been; and are become as though they had never been born; and their children after them.

Brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel.

My grandmother made me a scrapbook because I was once too young to remember; I am making scrapbooks for my family because one day I may be too old to remember.