Heritage Quotes - Page 4

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

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.

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

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

An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.

As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture.

The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.

Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has invariably remained his search for chess truth.

But Barack Obama is not a person who would defend the rights and heritage of the European-American people.

I've been really interested in focusing on the aspects of my Russian heritage I'm proud of. I'm actually em­barrassed to tell people I'm Russian, because it's become such an awful place.

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.

I'm very proud of my heritage.

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.

It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers.

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage.

My heritage is English, so I'm proud to be back here.

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.

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.

I think one can live in American society with a certain cultural heritage, whether it's an African heritage or other, European,what have you, and still absorb a great deal of this culture. There is always cultural assimilation.

Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage.

The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

Visual presentation of our heritage in glass is needed.

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.