Quotes about Heritage

You can become interested too late to realize how important your family tree is. The

Ona and Yagan people.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards -- the things we live by and teach our children -- are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god.

Properly speaking, a culture does not have a tradition; it is a tradition.

Any attempt to vary from the past in such a way as to cut the past off, causing it to be forgotten, has little cultural importance.

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are.

I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book of Mormon.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.