Heritage Quotes

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing.

The author says the earliest Australian aborigines devoted extraordinary amounts of energy to enterprises no one now can understand.

Bill Bryson

Most of your heritage comes from your culture, stupidity is one of them.

M.F. Moonzajer

A father's aim is to raise children who themselves raise good citizens.

Nicholas Dawidoff

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

Beatrix Potter

There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire whether the way is smooth and easy or rugged and difficult. Is life harder toward the end, or what report do you give it?

Plato

The media "could not be policed from without and had to be policed from within.

Tom Clancy

The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the noble savage and the General Will, but a "partnership" between the present generation and future generations.

Niall Ferguson

A true love can cross through your legacy and heritage.

M.F. Moonzajer

I wished that I had some other guardian of minor abilities.

Charles Dickens

Lawrence will go on burying his own undertakers.

Harold Bloom

We live among ruins in a World in which ‘god is dead’ as Nietzsche stated. The ideals of today are comfort, expediency, surface knowledge, disregard for one’s ancestral heritage and traditions, catering to the lowest standards of taste and intelligence, apotheosis of the pathetic, hoarding of material objects and possessions, disrespect for all that is inherently higher and better — in other wordsa complete inversion of true values and ideals, the raising of the victory flag of ignorance and the banner of degeneracy. In such a time, social decadence is so widespread that it appears as a natural component of all political institutions. The crises that dominate the daily lives of our societies are part of a secret occult war to remove the support of spiritual and traditional values in order to turn man into a passive instrument of dark powers.The common ground of both Capitalism and Socialism is a materialistic view of life and being. Materialism in its war with the Spirit has taken on many forms; some have promoted its goals with great subtlety, whilst others have done so with an alarming lack of subtlety, but all have added, in greater or lesser measure, to the growing misery of Mankind. The forms which have done the most damage in our time may be enumerated as: Freemasonry, Liberalism, Nihilism, Capitalism, Socialism, Marxism, Imperialism, Anarchism, Modernism and the New Age.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

While Johns (Martin Luther King's predecessor as pastor in Montgomery) agreed with Dexter's general disdain for emotionalism, he was very fond of traditional spirituals, believing they represented a part of their history they ought to embrace and celebrate.

Troy Jackson

countries who have a longer past are better able see further forward into the future and think about extending the time period that they've already been around into the distant future.

Hal Hershfield

The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, "Are we being good ancestors?

Steven Johnson

It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.

David Brooks

Chronicling future appeasing Prime Minister Joseph Chamberlain's rise to Parliament from first-generation commercial interests rather than the aristocracy, the author diagnoses even then that he had no center outside himself.

Barbara W. Tuchman

There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.

Walter Isaacson

He knew all the stories. His grandfather had given them to him when he sat between the old man’s knees as a child. It was a comfort, though, to hear them again. To call them to mind. All these stories that made him more than just a vintner and more than just a man who carried a spear whom other men were willing to follow. More than just a man who lay dying. The stories made him one of the People, who would never die.

Stant Litore

Old men want to feel that the experience which has come with their years is valuable, that their advice is valuable, that they possess a sagacity that could be obtained only through experience— a sagacity that could be of use to young men if only young men would ask.

Robert A. Caro

I am praying that the issues from the last 12 generations go into the ground with me so I have NEW issue is to pass on to my son.

Matt Chandler

During the whole time consumed in the slow growth of this family tree, the house of Smallweed, always early to go out and late to marry, has strengthened itself in its practical character, has discarded all amusements, discountenanced all story-books, fairy-tales, fictions, and fables, and banished all levities whatsoever. Hence the gratifying fact that it has had no child born to it and that the complete little men and women whom it has produced have been observed to bear a likeness to old monkeys with something depressing on their minds.

Charles Dickens

Good wombs have borne bad sons."-- (Miranda, I:2)

William Shakespeare

If you bungle raising children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

However much they may smile at her, the old inhabitants would miss Tillie. Her stories give them something to talk about and to conjecture about, cut off as they are from the restless currents of the world. The many naked little sandbars which lie between Venice and the mainland, in the seemingly stagnant water of the lagoons, are made habitable and wholesome only because, every night, a foot and a half of tide creeps in from the sea and winds its fresh brine up through all that network of shining waterways. So, into all the little settlements of quiet people, tidings of what their boys and girls are doing in the world bring real refreshment; bring to the old, memories, and to the young, dreams.

Willa Cather

We can't surrender to the culture. We've minimized the role of fathers, so we've created a generation of barbarians, children who become men without growing up. They stay in boyhood through their 20s and 30s, sometimes their whole lives. They think of themselves first, indulge in pornography, do what they feel like, leave their wives, and culture, and churches to raise their children.

Randy Alcorn

Building a naval power takes generations, not so much to develop the necessary technology as to pass along the accumulated experience that creates good admirals.

George Friedman

As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that is at risk - a vital part of our culture.

Sara Sheridan

Liberals tend to view traditions, policies, and morals of past generations as arbitrary designs put in place by less enlightened people. Because of this, liberals don't pay much attention to why traditions developed or wonder about possible ramifications of their social engineering.

John Hawkins

Pride is instilled. It's what we carry with us every day of our lives.

Nancy Arroyo Ruffin

What makes a civilization real to its inhabitants, in the end, is not just the splendid edifices at it centre, nor even the smooth functioning of the institutions they house. At its core, a civilization is the texts that are taught in its schools, learned by its students and recollected in times of tribulation.

Niall Ferguson

Conclusions that philosophers first establish by way of torturous reasoning have a way, over time, of leaking into shared knowledge.

Rebecca Goldstein

I had rather that the human race, having a certain quality in their lives, should continue for only a few centuries than that, losing freedom, friendship, dignity, and mercy, and learning to be quite content without them, they should continue for millions of millennia.

C.S. Lewis

In her fury she'd broken into Valencian, indicating the deepest possible roots in the land. I was impressed with how deeply she was from here, in a way I could never imagine being from anywhere, not even my home town.

Elisabeth Eaves

He had to grow his own NCOs.

Tom Clancy

The author says that one of the difficulties of modern parenting is the uncertainty of what parents are preparing children for. In traditional societies this was clear, as parents prepared children for a society and for roles much like their own. She writes, "There is no folk wisdom.

Jennifer Senior

They don't know the distinction between taking care of a child and raising a child.

Charles Murray

How to teach again what has been taught correctly it incorrectly 1000 thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task. How to render back into light-world language the speech-defying pronouncements of the dark? Many failures attest to the difficulties of this life-affirmative threshold.

Joseph Campbell

I inherited curiosity from my Dad.

Tom Clancy

It always matters who the storyteller is. It’s a lens.

James Still

Anecdotes came with his DNA.

Chris Matthews

Longing for something fresh, for something no one else has said often leads to bad exegesis.

Matt Chandler

Violence is temporary, but learning is permanent.

Patrick Hennessey

A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality

Harold Bloom

Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Don't you sense the enormity of your mistake – you invade a country without understanding its music. – Norman Mailer

Mark Kurlansky

John Brown, raised by disciplinarians, became one himself.

Tony Horwitz

It is myopic to base sweeping change on the narrow experience of a few years.

Antonin Scalia

My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.

Tahir Shah

When we reject our origins, we become the product of whatever soil that we find ourselves planted; the colors of our leaves change as we consume borrowed nutrients with borrowed roots and, like a tree, we grow.

Mike Norton

i lost a whole continent.a whole continent from my memory.unlike all other hyphenated americans my hyphen is made of blood.when africa says hellomy mouth is a heartbreakbecause i have nothing in my tongueto answer her.i don’t know how to say hello to my mother.

african-american ii nayyirah waheed

It seems like the best escape games come from Japan for some reason. It makes me proud.

Denis Markell

You gotta look backwards to go forwards.

Fennel Hudson

The past informs the present.

Fennel Hudson

Preserve the spirit of a ‘lost’ age, when time moved slower.

Fennel Hudson

Feature in God’s team of trainees and you will play for the winning team! This is your heritage that you will lay hands on the trophy!

Israelmore Ayivor

The main vehicle for nineteenth-century socialization was the leading textbook used in elementary school. They were so widely used that sections in them became part of the national language. Theodore Roosevelt, scion of an elite New York family, schooled by private tutors, had been raised on the same textbooks as the children of Ohio farmers, Chicago tradesman, and New England fishermen. If you want to know what constituted being a good American from the mid-nineteenth century to World War I, spend a few hours browsing through the sections in the McGuffey Readers.

Charles Murray

Words contain the "souls" or minds of people in the past; as such, they tell the story of consciousness.

Philip Zaleski

Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.

Harold Bloom

Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self.

Harold Bloom

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