Heritage Quotes - Page 6

• It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Eye, Hands

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.228, John Ruskin

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• It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness.

  Henry Reed

  Spiritual, Sleep, Thinking

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• The real University... has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries, and receives no material dues... The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Mind, Salary

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• 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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Different, Culture, World

  "Holding on to Romanticism". "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, May 2, 1931.

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• Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.

  Lisa Unger

  Denial, My Family, Inconvenience

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.410, Crown

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• The principle of free speech is no new doctrine born of the Constitution of the United States. It is a heritage of English-speaking peoples, which has been won by incalculable sacrifice, and which they must preserve so long as they hope to live as free men.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  Freedom, Responsibility, Sacrifice

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• I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage.

  Christian Kane

  Boys, Hair, Oklahoma

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• Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledge of the past so that one may use it in experiencing the present and aspiring to the future--all of these, it would seem reasonable to suppose, are essential to an educated man. To these must be added another--knowledge of the products of our artistic heritage that mark the history of our esthetic wonder and delight.

  Jerome Bruner

  Education, Past, Men

  Jerome Seymour Bruner (1979). “On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand”, p.122, Harvard University Press

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• We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Freedom, Winning

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• If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

  Will Durant

  Children, Men, Civilized

  Will Durant (2002). “The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Based on our natural heritage as the Divine Light of God, every one of us possesses intuition... defined as the language of the soul.

  James Van Praagh

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Light

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• Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, some body of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Spiritual, School, Church

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• The murderer only takes the life of the parent and leaves his character as a goodly heritage to his children, whilst the slanderer takes away his goodly reputation and leaves him a living monument to his children's disgrace.

  Andrew Jackson

  Children, Character, Parent

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• The Mexican revolution was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Past, Mexican, Black

  "Novelist Carlos Fuentes confronts mortality and his country's future". Interview with Anne-Marie O'Connor, articles.latimes.com. April 26, 2006.

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• I have the greatest affection for them but I know they're not going to make it for 500 years. They aren't. You know it, too. The Mexicans are a different cup of tea. They have a heritage. At the present time they steal, they're dishonest, but they do have some concept of family life. They don't live like a bunch of dogs, which the Negroes do live like.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Dog, Years, Tea

  Tapes from 1971 as presented in "All the Philosopher King's Men" by James Warren in "Harper's Magazine", February 2000.

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• We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia... Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe. The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today.

  Fred Hoyle

  Differences, Long, Today

  "Lifecloud: The Origin of Life in the Universe". Book by Chandra Wickramasinghe and Fred Hoyle (p. 15), 1978.

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• A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.

  Andre Malraux

  Art, Ideas, Share

  "Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Part I, Chapter V, 1951.

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• For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future... Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time.

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Past, Links

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Ignorance, Wealth Of Knowledge, Support

  "'Nahj al-Balagha' ('The Peak of Eloquence')". Book by Ali, translated by Askari Jafri,

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• This is our land. This is our world. This is our heritage, and with God's help, we shall reclaim this nation for Jesus Christ. And no power on earth can stop us.

  D. James Kennedy

  Jesus, Our World, Land

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• It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than isgood for them.

  Bill Bryson

  Sometimes, British

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• Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands, And of armèd men the hum; Lo, a nation's hosts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum Saying, Come, Freemen, Come! Ere your heritage be wasted, Said the quick alarming drum.

  Bret Harte

  Men, Arms, Host

  Bret Harte (2016). “Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist”, p.15, VM eBooks

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• In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love.

  Warren Farrell

  Odds, Quality, Firsts

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• These American values, this great moral heritage, is shared and lived in my religion as it is in yours. I was taught in my home to honor God and love my neighbor. I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.

  Mitt Romney

  Kings, Father, Home

  Faith in America, delivered 6 December 2007, College Station, TX

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• India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Country, People, History

  Shashi Tharoor (2005). “Bookless In Baghdad”, p.27, Penguin Books India

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