Contact
Privacy
Category: heritage
Quotes of Category: heritage
TOP TAGS :the-robber-bridenorwegian-woodtoothunwantedconduct-of-lifeles-misoppositionjohn-sandford

  1. Charles Murray _ Coming Apart: The State of

    The main vehicle for nineteenth-century socialization was the leading textbook used in elementary school. They were so widely used that sections in them became part of the national language. Theodore Roosevelt, scion of an elite New York family, schooled by private tutors, had been raised on the same textbooks as the children of Ohio farmers, Chicago tradesman, and New England fishermen. If you want to know what constituted being a good American from the mid-nineteenth century to World War I, spend a few hours browsing through the sections in the McGuffey Readers."
    book-quoteliteratureheritageeducation

  2. Walter Isaacson _ American Sketches: Great

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

  3. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

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

  4. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.
    book-quoteliteraturelegacyheritage

  5. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Originality must compound with inheritance.
    book-quoteidentitylegacyparenthood

  6. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden

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

  7. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden

    Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.
    book-quoteknowledgeenlightenmentwealth

  8. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Farthest Shore

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

  9. Mark Kurlansky _ 1968: The Year That Rocked the

    Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history." Georges Pompidou
    book-quoteperspectiveleadershiplegacy

  10. Mark Kurlansky _ 1968: The Year That Rocked the

    Don't you sense the enormity of your mistake – you invade a country without understanding its music. – Norman Mailer
    book-quoteheritagerelevanceengagement

  11. Frank Herbert _ Dune

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

  12. Frank Herbert _ Dune

    Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing.
    book-quotelegacyheritageword-of-god
Categories