Quotes About Heritage And Culture

#1. I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing.

Michael Flatley

#2. Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square.

Keith O'Brien

#3. The myth is not my own; I have it from my mother. Euripides

Joseph Campbell

#4. We have to realize our black heritage in order to give us strength to move on and progress. But as far as returning to the old African culture, it's unnecessary and it's not advantageous in many respects. We believe that culture itself will not liberate us. We're going to need some stronger stuff.

Huey Newton

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

Matt Chandler

#6. The study of the past is the main portal through which culture is acquired.

Joseph Epstein

#7. After arriving on the ancestral soil I figured out pretty quickly why that [Italian] heritage swamps all competition. It's a culture that sweeps you in, sits you down in the kitchen, and feeds you so well you really don't want to leave.

Barbara Kingsolver

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

Tahir Shah

#9. It is the concern of every immigrant that their offspring will grow to embrace their adoptive culture at the expense of their natural heritage.

Guillermo Del Toro

#10. Giving Back reframes portraits of philanthropy.

Valaida Fullwood

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

Charles Murray

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

Harold Bloom

#13. I am a National Football League player of American Samoan heritage. Because of my status as a professional athlete, I have been blessed to play a role in educating players and fans about the culture and history of America's southernmost territory.

Troy Polamalu

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

Rebecca Goldstein

#15. I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.

Q'orianka Kilcher

#16. I think my Latino culture has equipped me with a different point of view than the rest of my counterparts, and seeing things from a different angle has helped me a lot. I feel very proud of my culture, of my Latino heritage.

Nina Garcia

#17. 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

#18. My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.

Chanel Iman

#19. Leonard was superior to these people; he did believe in effort and in a steady preparation for the change that he desired. But of a heritage that may expand gradually, he had no conception: he hoped to come to Culture suddenly, much as the Revivalist hopes to come to Jesus. Those

E. M. Forster

#20. 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

#21. On every travel, we saw beautiful landscapes.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. 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

#23. The FBI had been a man's world - usually men of Irish or Italian heritage schooled by Jesuits and raised in a closed culture of police and priests.

Tim Weiner

#24. The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.

Georg Simmel

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

Antonin Scalia

#26. John Brown, raised by disciplinarians, became one himself.

Tony Horwitz

#27. Anecdotes came with his DNA.

Chris Matthews

#28. You know, children, quilts, like stories, are part of our heritage, part of our culture. Some quilts even tell stories. Our past is a patchwork of memories and tales. You all keep that forever tucked in your pockets, you hear?

Sharon M. Draper

#29. I inherited curiosity from my Dad.

Tom Clancy

#30. This was her heritage. Her people. So why did she feel so small and weak? So far removed from it?

Linda Gerber

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

Harold Bloom

#32. Over an extended period of time, if a culture does not entail any traditions ... if there are no values or if there is no awareness or social consciousness ... a heritage tradition can never be developed.

Narendra Modi

#33. Frazier said that the Negro middle class had borrowed its bourgeois style and traditional religion from the white middle class, which was itself intellectually and culturally barren. Black people should look to their own heritage, he said, create their own culture.

Howard Zinn

#34. Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality.

Sigmund Freud

#35. I have no feud, either with my employers, any sponsors, or with the professional critics of radio and television. But I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.

Edward R. Murrow

#36. American books reflect our common heritage with many other nations and their influence upon our culture. The influences are endless, linking us with the rest of the world. Thus, they are good ambassadors for us.

Robert Kennedy

#37. I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

Salma Hayek

#38. 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

#39. Violence is temporary, but learning is permanent.

Patrick Hennessey

#40. Ballet is certainly appreciated in New York, but it has been a part of the Russian culture, history and heritage for hundreds of years, so it's much more instilled in the Russian blood.

David Hallberg

#41. Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.

H.L. Mencken

#42. 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

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

M.F. Moonzajer

#44. The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from our spiritual heritage by a spiteful culture that gives us nothing but ashes- as the talismans of recognition that awaken our minds to reality.

Daniel Pinchbeck

#45. There is more to the human mind than its evolutionary heritage.

Kenan Malik

#46. The fact that we are culturally ignorant and we don't know what our heritage is, the price that we pay is that we act outside of ourselves almost all the time. We make very bad decisions how we deal with other people and their culture.

Wynton Marsalis

#47. The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#48. There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#49. I'm looking at looting photos from space, and there are people putting their lives on the line every day protecting their heritage. I call these people the real culture heroes.

Sarah Parcak

#50. Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore rescinded the state's European Heritage Month proclamation for fear it would sound racist. It's too bad. Thus ends a month of celebrating the 400-year progression of our nation's British culture from wood to steel to graphite shafts.

Argus Hamilton

#51. He had to grow his own NCOs.

Tom Clancy

#52. Once you leave Sundance suddenly you run into bulldozers and concrete and cranes, and all that heritage that the Mormon culture used to be so proud of is turned into out of control develpoment.

Robert Redford

#53. The culture and heritage should stay intact and be maintained as it provides the individuals with some degree of resiliency. The effects of the trauma is what should be focused on and treated. Improving the quality of life for survivors is the focus of treatment. It is not to erase the past.

Thomas Hodge

#54. This determined bias against religion, especially Christianity, is clearly evident when viewed against the religious heritage of American culture as revealed in the Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 143 U.S. 452. 1892.

Mathew Staver

#55. The motto of the old order in the City of London was, 'My word is my bond,' but the financial crisis revealed a culture quite alien to that heritage. The stewards of people's money were revealed to have been speculators with it.

Gordon Brown

#56. Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don't have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I've tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it.

Alber Elbaz

#57. It always matters who the storyteller is. It's a lens.

James Still

#58. Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.

Natan Sharansky

#59. If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous heritage of Jewish culture, theology, and wisdom.

Deborah Lipstadt

#60. Mongolia is a country of rich and ancient heritage, unique culture and astounding natural beauty. It is a land of free and brave, peace-loving and hard-working people.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

#61. 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

#62. God does not save us to make us forget our heritage, but to complete it.

Beth Moore

#63. As part of the E.U., my children can have the freedom and the opportunity to work and live across Europe; to be ambitious in the world's largest market; and to access so much of the history, the culture and the opportunity which is our common European heritage.

Andrew Lansley

#64. I am not a Hispanic candidate. I am an American candidate who happens to be of Hispanic heritage, who understands the culture, who has worked the border and has a unique understanding of those issues. But rest assured my job is to represent all Americans as a U.S. senator.

Richard Carmona

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

Alexis De Tocqueville

#66. 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

#67. I am a passionate believer that Britain has benefited the whole world and that our heritage, our culture, our values and more importantly our people who created those things, are worth fighting for.

Steve Blake

#68. Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive.

Marla Gibbs

#69. 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.

G.K. Chesterton

#70. In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending works that maintained and nurtured a cultural heritage.

David Gerrold

#71. We should feel empowered by where we came from and who we are, not hide it. It is important to acknowledge that everything we do affects our ancestors as much as they have affected us.

Lorin Morgan-Richards

#72. We must respect each other's right to choose a collective destiny, and the opportunity to develop the legal and political rights for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples so that we may enjoy the right to maintain our culture, our heritage and our land, as a united Australia.

Jackie Huggins

#73. I believe that the faith heritage of this country is actually a very important part of America's culture.

Mitt Romney