#heritage

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

#conditions #discover #egypt #evolution #heritage

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#become #financially #heritage #independent #opportunity

Giving Back reframes portraits of philanthropy. ↗

— Valaida Fullwood

#culture #heritage #history #inspirational #philanthropy

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

— Henry David Thoreau

#heritage #faith

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. ↗

— Amy Tan

#concepts #daughters #family #fear #heritage

Before I can say I am, I was. Heraclitus and I, prophets of flux, know that the flux is composed of parts that imitate and repeat each other. Am or was, I am cumulative, too. I am everything I ever was, whatever you and Leah may think. I am much of what my parents and especially my grandparents were -- inherited stature, coloring, brains, bones (that part unfortunate), plus transmitted prejudices, culture, scruples, likings, moralities, and moral errors that I defend as if they were personal and not familial. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#family #heritage #identity #morality #past

Politics should 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. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#communist #freedom #national-heritage #politics #rights

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

— Beatrix Potter

#influence #personality #influence

Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#heritage #men #must #social

Heritage Action is a self-interested fundraising organization led by a former Giuliani staffer who is not taking counsel from real conservatives... It is a worthless organization to the conservative movement. I'll be the first to say that. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#be the first #conservative #conservative movement #conservatives #counsel