Heritage Quotes

My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was another death thought.

Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.

It always matters who the storyteller is. It’s a lens.

A father's aim is to raise children who themselves raise good citizens.

You are one woman in an endless line of women who were chosen to love more passionately than others, be committed to justice more fervently than others, and seek our Maker’s higher expressions more reflectively than others.

Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone.

While Johns (Martin Luther King's predecessor as pastor in Montgomery) agreed with Dexter's general disdain for emotionalism, he was very fond of traditional spirituals, believing they represented a part of their history they ought to embrace and celebrate.

Stories were heirlooms in these parts.

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.

Nature is increasingly the thematic focus of industrial heritage.

Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.

John Brown, raised by disciplinarians, became one himself.

He had to grow his own NCOs.

I inherited curiosity from my Dad.

Knowledge is not a heritage to be passed on so much as it is something to be created and continually increased

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

Pride is instilled. It's what we carry with us every day of our lives.

We can't surrender to the culture. We've minimized the role of fathers, so we've created a generation of barbarians, children who become men without growing up. They stay in boyhood through their 20s and 30s, sometimes their whole lives. They think of themselves first, indulge in pornography, do what they feel like, leave their wives, and culture, and churches to raise their children.