"Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies."

Heritage, End, Eyes, Sunset

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"Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies."

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"Sure, cried the tenant men, but it's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours. That's what makes it ours-being born on it, working it, dying on it."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Heritage, Land, Ownership, Identity

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

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Heritage, Bravery, Tradition, Family, Courage

"She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Heritage, Strength, Motherhood, Legacy, Courage

"One of the major contributions of the Protestant faith to the world is the culture of dignity of labour."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Heritage, Protestant Faith, Dignity, Labour, Culture

"Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Heritage, Nobility, Tradition, Family, Responsibility

"To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Heritage, Courage, Tradition, Family, Legacy

"My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska."

Standing Bear, American Leader

Heritage, First, Living, Now, States

"Yes I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

Heritage, Identity, History, Religion

"Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'"

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Heritage, History, Memory, Legacy, Oppression

"London? Paris? Berlin? Zurich? Maybe Brussels, center of the young union? They all strive to outdo one another culturally, architecturally, politically, fiscally. But Rome, it should be said, has not bothered to join the race for status. Rome doesn't compete. Rome just watches all the fussing and striving, completely unfazed, exuding an air like: 'Hey- do whatever you want, but I'm still Rome. I am inspired by the regal self-assurance of this town, so grounded and rounded, so amused and monumental, knowing that she is held securely in the palm of history. I would like to be Rome when I am an old lady."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

Heritage, Cities, Culture, History, Rome

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"I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do."

Faith, Men

"In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train."

Age, Time, Difference, Night

"Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made."

Imagination, Certainty, Road

"Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies."

Heritage, End, Eyes, Sunset

"Early youth is a baffling time."

Time, Youth

"To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson."

Learning, May, World

"The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you."

Progress, Day, Living, May, Present

"And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going."

Insight, Infinity, Will