A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are. — Steve Berry
Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building. — Carlo Petrini
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. — Theodore Bikel
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people. — Mahatma Gandhi
We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on. — Louis Riel
Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience. — Yo-Yo Ma
The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence. — Juan Goytisolo
Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust. — Yo-Yo Ma
Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange. — Chuck D
We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation. — Cesar Chavez
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. — Matthew Arnold
We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity. — Julie Bishop
Art is the signature of civilizations. — Beverly Sills
Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance. — James Lafferty
The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world. — Jinato Hu
The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world. — Hu Jintao
Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind. — Abdus Salam
Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures. — Cesar Chavez
Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline — Mikhail Botvinnik
Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants. — Plato
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. — Mahatma Gandhi
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Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs. — Betty Shabazz
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
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
The mission of your life should be to leave a better world behind than what you inherited.
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
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
A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.' We must learn about other cultures in order to understand, in order to love, and in order to preserve our common world heritage. — Yo-Yo Ma
You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: Played it safe.
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians. — George Lucas
We are experiencing new problems every day and whatever we do adds to the richness of our cultural heritage as long as it has man as its centre — Steven Biko
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
Our Nation has a diverse and extremely rich cultural heritage. It is a source of pride and strength to millions of Americans who look to the arts for inspiration, communication and the opportunity for creative self-expression. — Gerald R. Ford
Heritage Day Quotes
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. — Abraham Lincoln
On this day, when we're celebrating our constitutional heritage, I urge you to be faithful to that heritage - to impose on our fellow citizens only the restrictions that are there in the Constitution, not invent new ones, not to invent the right because it's a good idea. — Antonin Scalia
Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God. — George Washington
Perhaps that dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises. A day will come when unvanquished Man will retrace his path of conquest, despite all barriers, to win back his lost human heritage. — Rabindranath Tagore
Now, I know that there are some Aboriginal people who aren’t happy with Australia Day. For them it remains Invasion Day. I think a better view is the view of Noel Pearson, who has said that Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country’s British Heritage. — Tony Abbott
You dont have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year. — John Thorn
When we were growing up, we were so poor that our heritage was the only thing we had. Mama would say, 'Kids, pour more water in the soup. Better days are coming.' — Ashley Judd
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. — George Washington
But it did not all happen in a day, this giving over of himself, body and soul, to the man-animals. He could not immediately forego his wild heritage and his memories of the Wild. There were days when he crept to the edge of the forest and stood and listened to something calling him far and away. — Jack London
Heritage Quotes
Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all. — Jose Rizal
Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance. — Theodore Roosevelt
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind. — John Diefenbaker
In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and through an experience of the eternal mystery, can give them a sense of the sacredness of all creation. — Sigurd F. Olson
A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. — Samuel Adams
Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Our American heritage is threatened as much by our own indifference as it is by the most unscrupulous office or by the most powerful foreign threat. The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture. — Hugh Masekela
Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent. — Jim Rohn
Christian Heritage Quotes
The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments. — Benjamin Rush
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart. — Thomas Jefferson
For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. — John Winthrop
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history. — H. G. Wells
My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just — Thomas Jefferson
Without Virtue there can be no liberty — Benjamin Rush
Your culture is your brand
The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained... — George Washington
Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ. — James Madison
The interests of the deaf child and his parents may best be served by accepting that he is a deaf person, with an elaborate cultural and linguistic heritage that can enrich his parent's life as it will his own. — Harlan Lane
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
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
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
I see myself as an ambassador of French heritage and French culture. — Bernard Arnault
I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect.... For after all, they could be my people. — James A. Michener
The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage. — Tariq Ramadan
What we deplore is not that the gate of western knowledge was thrown open to Indians, but that such knowledge was imported to India at the sacrifice of our own cultural heritage. What was needed was a proper synthesis between the two systems and not neglect, far less destruction, of the Indian base. — Syama Prasad Mukherjee
For Indigenous peoples , the impact of separating us from our heritage goes directly to the heart that pumps life through our peoples. To expect a people to be able to enjoy their culture without their cultural heritage and their sacred belongings is equivalent to amputating their legs and digging up the ground and asking them to run a marathon. — Mick Dodson
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
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
The South is a great driving destination for tourism - heritage, cultural and many other types of tourism. — Sonny Perdue
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
Happiness is a very proud word of our whole cultural heritage. — Erich Fromm
My responsibility is to save Tibet, to protect its ancient cultural heritage. — Dalai Lama
Our rich and varied cultural heritage has a
profound power to help build our nation — Nelson Mandela
I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture. — Michael Flatley
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
Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality. — Sigmund Freud
I think there [on Cuba] is going to be an extraordinary reception.Cubans are - they want to hold onto their culture, their heritage, but they also want to embrace this opportunity, perhaps, for new economic freedoms. — David Muir
In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics. — Samuel P. Huntington
Today, due to the massive Chinese population transfer, the nation of Tibet truly faces the threat of extinction, along with its unique cultural heritage of Buddhist spirituality. — Dalai Lama
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
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. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The partition of India in 1947 legitimized the forces of masculinist nationalism and enabled hatred for the "other" to irreparably mutilate a shared anti-colonial legacy and cultural heritage so systematically that the wounds inflicted by the partition are yet to heal. — Nyla Ali Khan
We have been the benefactors of our cultural heritage and the victims of our cultural narrowness. — Stanley Krippner
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
The giant neon spinning discs are a reminder of the huge role that Sam Sniderman and his store played in the cultural life of Toronto and I believe they should be preserved and remounted in the interests of our city's heritage. — Gordon Lightfoot
We should be in the business of protecting cherished institutions and our cultural heritage, otherwise what, I ask, is a Conservative party for? Indeed we are alienating people who have voted for us for all their lives, leaving them with no one to vote for. — Edward Leigh
The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant. — E. M. Forster
I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing. — Michael Flatley
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
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