Heritage Quotes

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from ...

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

Building a naval power takes generations, not so much to develop the necessary technology as to pass...

Lawrence will go on burying his own undertakers.

Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.

The inventor knows HOW to borrow.

Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for ...

A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality

Originality must compound with inheritance.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Book...

Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.

But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate herita...

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

How to teach again what has been taught correctly it incorrectly 1000 thousand times, throughout the...

Don't you sense the enormity of your mistake – you invade a country without understanding its music....

Children need fairy tales, but it is just as essential that they have parents who tell them about th...

Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history." Ge...

My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.

The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the nobl...

What makes a civilization real to its inhabitants, in the end, is not just the splendid edifices at ...

There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who hav...

Bless all the women of this world who nurture our heritage while too many man rush off to kill for i...

Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in co...

I inherited curiosity from my Dad.

The media "could not be policed from without and had to be policed from within.

He had to grow his own NCOs.

If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown.

There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.

However much they may smile at her, the old inhabitants would miss Tillie. Her stories give them som...

Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal.

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant...

It is myopic to base sweeping change on the narrow experience of a few years.

A written constitution is needed to protect values AGAINST prevailing wisdom.

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

The author says the earliest Australian aborigines devoted extraordinary amounts of energy to enterp...

I had rather that the human race, having a certain quality in their lives, should continue for only ...

During the whole time consumed in the slow growth of this family tree, the house of Smallweed, alway...

I wished that I had some other guardian of minor abilities.

Anecdotes came with his DNA.

It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.