Heritage quotes
199 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction."
"What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage Whose world, or mine or theirs or is it of none? First came the seen, then thus the palpable Elysium, though it were in the halls of hell. What thou lovest well is thy true heritage."
"What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage"
"What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage."
"There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so."
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"Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded."
"The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done."
"Our rich and varied cultural heritage has a profound power to help build our nation"
"For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness."
"Happiness is a very proud word of our whole cultural heritage."
"My responsibility is to save Tibet, to protect its ancient cultural heritage."
"Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage."
"... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance."
"Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own."
"It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage."
"Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality."
"A people without a heritage are easily persuaded."
"The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant."
"The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover."
"We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights."
"Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage."
"What the Negro wants - and will not stop until he gets - is absolute and unqualified freedom and equality here in this land of his birth, and not in Africa or in some imaginary state. The Negro no longer will be tolerant of anything less than his due right and heritage. He is pursuing only that which he knows is honorably his. He knows that he is right."
"An Arab activist can take pride in the Arab heritage of mathematics and science or he can take pride in his religion, and there's pride to be taken in both. But one of them could be exploited much more easily and has been in the context of world conflict. And the other is very difficult to do on the grounds that science and literature and mathematics have been among the uniting factors in the history of the world."
"There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave."
"The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything."
