These heritage quotes will inspire you. Heritage, the traditions, achievements, beliefs, etc., that are part of the history of a group or nation or property that is or may be inherited; an inheritance.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging heritage quotes, heritage sayings, and heritage proverbs.
Best Heritage Quotes
- “Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.” ~ Branch Rickey
- “You don’t stumble upon your heritage. It’s there, just waiting to be explored and shared.” ~ Robbie Robertson
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“A people’s relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.” ~ John Henrik Clarke
- “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 , Heritage quotes architectural
- “A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere since they open up for man his inner distance.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- “A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.” ~ Karl Marx
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“My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.” ~ Maureen O’Hara
- “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
- “Lord of himself; that heritage of woe!” ~ Lord Byron
- “It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.” ~ David R. Brower
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“Visual presentation of our heritage in glass is needed.” ~ James Lafferty
- “In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.” ~ Alex Haley
- “Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “To deny this is to deny our own heritage, our own spirit, and our own souls.” ~ John Denver
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“I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to ‘Anarchy’ or ‘Despotism’.” ~ George Washington
- “Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.” ~ Thurgood Marshall
- “I’ve led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.” ~ Larry David
- “Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.” ~ Nelly Furtado
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“Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.” ~ Robert Kennedy
- “I think a lot of what I was taught, gathered, and learned is worth keeping. Heritage and “wisdom” and simply personal family and local history enrich the one able to tap such information. As it is I wish I had garnered more from my grandparents and parents.” ~ Gary Gygax , Family heritage quotes
- “You have to stay true to your heritage, that’s what your brand is about.” ~ Alice Temperley
- “If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world’s people.” ~ Jacque Fresco
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“If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world’s music heritage will disappear.” ~ Ray Davies
- “We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas.” ~ Jim Ryun
- “We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. … If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it.” ~ Calvin Coolidge
- “Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.” ~ Jean-Henri Fabre
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“It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren’t my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.” ~ Susannah McCorkle
- “Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.” ~ Allan Bloom
- “The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.” ~ Abdus Salam
- “Part of my heritage being Korean, it’s going to be interesting going to Korea and answering these questions dealing with North and South Korea.” ~ Rick Yune
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“The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.” ~ Pat Robertson
- “My heritage is English, so I’m proud to be back here.” ~ Nicholas Lea
- “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.” ~ Anthony Kennedy
- “High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage.” ~ Alan Autry
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“Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.” ~ Ernest Istook
- “An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.” ~ Hosni Mubarak
- “For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years.” ~ Spencer Bachus
- “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.” ~ Naguib Mahfouz
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“Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.” ~ Jim Cooper
- “Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.” ~ Gustav Stresemann , Cultural heritage quotes
- “Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.” ~ Margaret Oliphant
- “As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man’s free agency is a God-given gift.” ~ David O. McKay
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“Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.” ~ Abdus Salam
- “I’m very proud of my heritage.” ~ Wilford Brimley
- “The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.” ~ Abdelaziz Bouteflika
- “I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.” ~ Sonia Sotomayor
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“Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don’t seem to see this.” ~ Doris Lessing
- “The South is a great driving destination for tourism – heritage, cultural and many other types of tourism.” ~ Sonny Perdue
- “The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.” ~ Lesley Garrett
- “Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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“If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.” ~ Harri Holkeri
- “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “Sport is part of every man and woman’s heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.” ~ Pierre de Coubertin
- “Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.” ~ Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
- “In virtually every Continental state at this time, aristocracies had to live with the risk that their property might be pillaged or confiscated. Only in Great Britain did it prove possible to float the idea that aristocratic property was in some magical and strictly intangible way the people’s property also. The fact that hundreds of thousands of men and women today are willing to accept that privately owned country houses and their contents are part of Britain’s national heritage is one more proof of how successfully the British elite reconstructed its cultural image in an age of revolution.” ~ Linda Colley
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“As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.” ~ Frances Conroy
- “I’m proud of my Irish heritage and culture.” ~ Michael Flatley
- “Don’t be so shortsighted that if it doesn’t happen right now, you’re not going to be happy. You are sowing seeds that will reap a great harvest for generations to come.” ~ Joel Osteen
- “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” ~ John Adams
- “Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.” ~ George Washington
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“We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.” ~ Bruce Babbitt
- “Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.” ~ Bruce Catton
- “Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.” ~ Pierre de Coubertin
