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  • My heritage may be Jewish, but my heart belongs to you.†   (source)
  • Or save a precious piece of human heritage from these barbarians?†   (source)
  • Our ancient heritage and our very physiologies tell us sex is natural—a cherished route to spiritual fulfillment—and yet modern religion decries it as shameful, teaching us to fear our sexual desire as the hand of the devil.†   (source)
  • Refusing to admit defeat, Vera Strong decided to view her daughter's choice of profession as a selfless gesture of civicmindedness rather than a betrayal of the family heritage.†   (source)
  • We were the Electrons, in honor of the town's electronics heritage.†   (source)
  • There were already two hundred thousand entries in the catalog by 1850, a priceless mineral heritage ...†   (source)
  • I DON'T WANT TO MAKE TOO MUCH of our mother by asserting that she was especially beautiful or especially distinguished by heritage or intelligence.†   (source)
  • By then we already had enough goals to beat most of our opponents: 10-0 over St. Anthony's, 8-0 over Heritage Baptist, 3-0 over De Leon, 4-0 over Seminole, 7-0 over Highland Park, 4-0 over Cortes, and 7-0 over Palmetto in a rematch at our home field.†   (source)
  • But they never took all this family heritage stuff seriously, did they?†   (source)
  • Her Fae heritage.†   (source)
  • Rachelle is reclaiming her European heritage by hanging out with the foreign-exchange students.†   (source)
  • I have no plans of alerting anyone to your heritage.†   (source)
  • Printed over the flag are the words HERITAGE NOT HATE.†   (source)
  • They are my heritage, my contribution to the world.†   (source)
  • It informed me not only that you are Lunar, not only that you are not a shell, but also something of your heritage.†   (source)
  • But Mother and Father wanted the children to know about their heritage.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, investigations will begin in my department as to his true heritage.†   (source)
  • Retaining our humanity, cherishing our heritage, we fought the depravity of the Nazis with subtle forms of resistance.†   (source)
  • 'They're our heritage as demigods.†   (source)
  • They and their charcoal hair and soot-colored brows and bluish-ash-smeared cheeks where they had shaven close; but their heritage showed.†   (source)
  • Elise's Asian heritage was being taken full advantage of.†   (source)
  • He was one of those guys who wore a wedding ring that didn't really look like a wedding ring—or maybe it wasn't a wedding ring at all and he was just super-proud of his Celtic heritage.†   (source)
  • "Heritage," the hotel was called.†   (source)
  • "White and light" refers to people who are either entirely white or, more likely, who have some black heritage that is no longer readily apparent.†   (source)
  • It would be nice to know his heritage.†   (source)
  • This sign of respect in America and Europe, this symbol of heritage and lineage, would be ridiculed in India.†   (source)
  • But sometimes I'd look in the mirror, studying myself, trying to find some remnants of my Italian heritage.†   (source)
  • One evening, walking across the campus just after sunset, she pressed her father on details of his heritage.†   (source)
  • It felt like serendipity—she and several other women had recently founded the Turner Station Heritage Committee, and they were organizing events to bring attention to black people from Turner Station who'd contributed good things to the world: a former congressman who became president of the NAACP, an astronaut, and the man who'd won several Emmy awards as the voice of Sesame Street's Elmo.†   (source)
  • The San Gabriel Mission held an annual "Fiesta Days" celebration to honor the Spanish-Mexican heritage of the area.†   (source)
  • Your family genetic heritage, your specific DNA, your metabolic uniqueness, the quantum stuff that is going on at a subatomic level where only I am the always-present observer.†   (source)
  • This was Marley's proud heritage, and it appeared he had inherited at least half of the instinct.†   (source)
  • Constantly I reminded myself of where I had come from—my peasant roots, the starvation, the desperation of being trapped in the deep well, of my Chinese heritage—all this I used as my internal driving force.†   (source)
  • A person on a skateboard, rolling down the highway right behind him, just as he is laying in his approach vectors to Heritage Boulevard.†   (source)
  • It was the last night Jacob and I had had before he'd learned the truth about his heritage.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Lincoln was a few feet away talking to the other mothers, most likely promising to add their houses to the Southern Heritage Tour if they made a couple of phone calls to Principal Harper.†   (source)
  • The concept of tribal heritage is very rigid.†   (source)
  • To Emeline, Holmes's claim of lordly heritage had credibility.†   (source)
  • Arthur Moore was a former judge of the Texas State Supreme Court, and the room reflected his southwestern heritage.†   (source)
  • Despite his Gio heritage, he had found a job as a public servant in the mostly Krahn government, a position that made him the target of distrust among other Gios.†   (source)
  • I would take my chance....' " 'And if you do take that chance and live, live for years, what would be your heritage?†   (source)
  • All that this angelic heritage has given to us is a longer distance to fall.†   (source)
  • Families give us our roots, our heritage, and our past.†   (source)
  • Then there's the Northern Pacific Railway Museum and the Yakama Nation Cultural Heritage Center.†   (source)
  • The business of the Indian excavations was completely secret, since they were part of the historical heritage of the nation.†   (source)
  • According to a recent study by the Heritage Foundation, the SBA is still providing free investment capital to some of the nation's largest corporations.†   (source)
  • I quickly realized that I had to make my way on the basis of my ability, not my heritage.†   (source)
  • He offered a few of his usual vile condemnations of his heritage but seemed placated by the fact that his grandfather had lost the case against Sylvester Rinds.†   (source)
  • There was even, from Tom Reid (Lib. New Westminster), this statement: "As long as I have breath in my body I will keep fighting in this House of Commons to see that the heritage which belongs to Canadians should be returned to the white people."†   (source)
  • Unbeknownst to Patricia Kennedy Lawford, her husband owes that affiliation to her family heritage.†   (source)
  • Trying to be proud of my heritage and the fact that I was of African descent.†   (source)
  • She said it was because she hadn't lost touch with her Cherokee heritage and the tribal knowledge of the ancestral Wise Women she carried in her blood.†   (source)
  • Because it was my blood—not just that night, but my heritage, you could say.†   (source)
  • It started off looking like a simple question and here it's got us really probing into the intellectual heritage of our civilization.†   (source)
  • My Christian heritage and education go hand and hand.'†   (source)
  • Illness in early childhood, marriage to a Jewish woman, science itself of course, cultural heritage—the allowable flush of Italian pride, only not so rousing in this case, attached to such destruction.†   (source)
  • They were first cousins and also shared the heritage of a complex and intricate family tree.†   (source)
  • Set within the hollowed eye sockets, however, was a pair of round blue cat eyes—a startling reminder of his demonic heritage.†   (source)
  • He drank too much, but considering our heritage, it would be remarkable only if he did not drink, and cuss, and fight.†   (source)
  • Allegorical scenes on the door panels celebrated the nation's heritage, and windows were of sufficient size to provide a full view of the crowned sovereign within.†   (source)
  • For the next forty-eight years, I didn't focus on my heritage.†   (source)
  • The South was a little England in its heritage and social structure.†   (source)
  • Aven explained that while their short stature made them rather disagreeable, their inborn ability—from the goat half of their heritage, John had no doubt—to scale mountainous terrain also came in handy on a tempest-tossed deck.†   (source)
  • Our cultural heritage will be lost to a whole generation, excluded by a punitive financial barrier.†   (source)
  • When I asked him about it, he said that the ring was a symbol of his heritage and all that he was.†   (source)
  • But we agreed on what to do; we agreed that we wanted to be part of your beginning, part of your heritage.†   (source)
  • Too many have been dispossessed of their heritage, and we have banded together in brotherhood so as to do something about it.†   (source)
  • "He went to his death unreconstructed and unloved," wrote Peter Chew in American Heritage magazine, "having left his mark literally and figuratively on many a stablehand."†   (source)
  • But history keeps happening, and it seems no harm and maybe some positive good to add to our historical heritage with some talk in this area of discourse.†   (source)
  • "It's your heritage," is what everybody said.†   (source)
  • Eve saw he had the pale gold complexion of a multiracial heritage and the eyes of a very desperate man.†   (source)
  • He'd been luckier than most; he'd found a few friends who could look beyond his heritage and see his true character.†   (source)
  • Accepting, of course, the immediate dangers of radiation to themselves in order to provide a proper genetic heritage of mutation for the benefit of their descendants.†   (source)
  • In his account of this process, Thomas Paul Bonfiglio says that Harvard thus "constructed the Nordic, Christian (mid)western country boy as the savior of its heritage," and the choice influenced other universities.†   (source)
  • Our heritage.†   (source)
  • We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.†   (source)
  • Our literature introduced our history and heritage to American literature.†   (source)
  • After all, he's Phil's son, so it's his heritage as well.†   (source)
  • I'd never asked him, but I assumed some Native American heritage, most likely Cherokee or Chickasaw.†   (source)
  • He always told my brother that we should revere our Asian heritage and protect it from foreign influences, that whether Chinese or Japanese or Korean we were rooted of a common culture and mind and that we should put aside our differences and work together.†   (source)
  • The entire mythology of the city is dependent on the existence of an ancient, beleaguered aristocracy who trace their heritage to the first stirrings of the Colony.†   (source)
  • ...We will show our fathers and mothers wifes sisters brothers and sweethearts that we are" worthy of that heritage.†   (source)
  • On the front page of Le Monde were two photographs of Safia Bourihane, the Frenchwoman of Muslim heritage, the veiled killer from the caliphate.†   (source)
  • It seemed to him that he was unique, having such a heritage.†   (source)
  • Likewise, we are rightly suspicious of that which gives too much consolation in these circumstances; the very extremity of our late twentieth century knowledge puts much of our cultural heritage to an extreme test.†   (source)
  • Yet it was an integral part of the heritage of all Americans, and so it troubled the minds of men in the North and in the South, long after Jefferson's death.†   (source)
  • All except his childhood, his own heritage.†   (source)
  • It seemed hardly to matter, and I was sick of the argument, sick of the fanaticism I was unable to counter or find shelter from, sick with the vision of Bobby Weed and—despite feeling no complicity whatever in the Georgia abomination—suddenly sick with a past and a place and a heritage I could neither believe in nor fathom.†   (source)
  • He was of mixed tribal heritage, and in this part of the country he was a stranger.†   (source)
  • Those who remembered our independence will be dead: humanity will have forgotten its heritage.†   (source)
  • This was all difficult to explain, but he did voice his final conviction, inescapable because of his legal heritage and training, and the oaths he had taken as voter and soldier.†   (source)
  • All the traditions of our past, all the lessons of our heritage, all the promises of our future point to another path, the path of common purpose and the restoration of American values.†   (source)
  • Our defense is in the spirit which prized liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere.†   (source)
  • What can one do with such a heritage but wonder at it?†   (source)
  • The population's too large, by now, and our heritage is against it.†   (source)
  • "Your heritage," she said, And then she turned to Maggie, kissed her, and said, "You ought to try to make something of yourself, too, Maggie.†   (source)
  • Sin is the only heritage of the natural man, sin bequeathed us by our natural father, that fallen Adam, whose apple sickens and will sicken all generations living, and generations yet unborn!†   (source)
  • Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.†   (source)
  • We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage.†   (source)
  • a concert celebrating Hispanic musical heritage
  • The Taj Mahal has been declared a World Heritage Site.
  • Your statutes are my heritage forever; they are the joy of my heart.   (source)
  • For what is man's lot from God above, his heritage from the Almighty on high?   (source)
  • our lot is cast in a goodly heritage.   (source)
  • The heritage of things is important to me, especially if those things are going to kill me.†   (source)
  • He asked Zeitoun more about his heritage, about Syria, about his career, about his visits back home.†   (source)
  • But I also wanted you to see your country's heritage, children, to learn of its rich past.†   (source)
  • The Taliban have destroyed what heritage Afghans had.†   (source)
  • The DAR needs some notes on Gatlin's hist'ry for the Southern Heritage Tour.†   (source)
  • I'd think the climate wouldn't affect you, given your heritage.†   (source)
  • "I'm wearing a HERITAGE NOT HATE shirt over my graduation gown," he says.†   (source)
  • I cannot say if this passion will end happily, but your love is of noble birth and heritage.†   (source)
  • And we both know how willing you are to, well, give up your heritage when it suits you.†   (source)
  • Even the Lincoln Memorial in Washington can trace its heritage to the fair.†   (source)
  • Crowds of strangers applauded her as she passed, for no other reason than her royal heritage.†   (source)
  • argued with her husband over whose heritage and possessions were greater.†   (source)
  • You're chosen for Valhalla because of your courage and honor, not your heritage.†   (source)
  • I was literally carrying on my back the history, culture, and heritage of my people.†   (source)
  • I cried, begged, appealed to our common heritage, but she remained adamant.†   (source)
  • Could one clone a person with Max's heritage?†   (source)
  • It hurts my feelings when a very ugly human being like yourself casts aspersions on my heritage.†   (source)
  • It is my heritage, a burden passed on to me when my father was killed.†   (source)
  • Reading a few lines from a book to claim his heritage, his throne, and his destiny.†   (source)
  • So, in his case, the force of the city culture and schools had overridden his heritage.†   (source)
  • It's for our families, our heritage, and our country.†   (source)
  • It's just that, as usual, we're trained not to see it by our heritage.†   (source)
  • It was about his mom, her heritage, her survival at an age at which her options were few.†   (source)
  • The mirror showed me a red, puffy face, the heritage of a night of tears.†   (source)
  • You have lost the way of your heritage, and now you dare to presume that you aright defeat me!†   (source)
  • A Duty to Family, Heritage, and Country YING YING YU I AM A GOOD CHILD, OBEDIENT.†   (source)
  • I resolved to work for them, support what was best in our heritage.†   (source)
  • He used the phrase "our precious heritage of suffering."†   (source)
  • We all have that heritage, no matter what old land our fathers left.†   (source)
  • He took pride in his body-a welltuned, lethal machine, which, despite his heritage, he refused to pollute with narcotics.†   (source)
  • A prominent academic whose quiet manner belied his powerful heritage, Peter Solomon came from the ultrawealthy Solomon family, whose names appeared on buildings and universities all over the nation.†   (source)
  • I resolved to put my heritage to use.†   (source)
  • Those Pashtuns are proud of their stern military heritage, and it's worth remembering that in all the centuries of bitter, savage warfare in Baluchistan, during which time they were never subdued, half the population was always Pashtun.†   (source)
  • By contrast, the museum houses give far greater educational value, and the fees they collect are used for the worthwhile purpose of maintaining important remnants of Savannah's heritage.†   (source)
  • Heritage Works.†   (source)
  • I guess they've always been proud of our heritage, and the ability to share it with people, and along the way find out a bit about the history of the country, well, it appealed to them.†   (source)
  • the Deiverator can't help watching in the rearvjew-leans back like a water skier, pushes off against his board, and swings around beside him, now traveling abreast with him up Heritage Boulevard and slap another sticker goes up, this one on the windshield!†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was the chance meeting with Nikolai, who, despite his heritage, seemed to be finding a place for himself in the new Russia.†   (source)
  • He believed that if the Koreans were honest about where they came from and were willing to confront those aspects of their heritage that did not suit the aviation world, they could change.†   (source)
  • I am thankful that you and I share a family heritage, and I sense a spark in you that I have always felt in myself.†   (source)
  • Just promise me that, even if you turn your back on your heritage, you will never turn your back on your family.†   (source)
  • it out, memorized the location of the shed and the picnic table, can find them even in the dark-knows that if it ever came to this, a twenty-three-minute pizza, miles to go, and a slowdown at CSV-5 and Oahu-he could enter The Mews at Windsor Heights (his electronic delivery-man's visa would raise the gate automatically), scream down Heritage Boulevard, rip the turn onto Strawbridge Place (ignoring the DEAD END sign and the speed limit and the CHILDREN PLAYING ideograms that are strung so liberally throughout TMAWH), thrash the speed bumps with his mighty radials, blast up the driveway of Number 15 Strawbridge Circle, cut a hard left around the backyard shed, careen into the backyar†   (source)
  • The members of the DAR had spent weeks preparing for their version of the Reenactment, the Southern Heritage Tours, and their daughters had spent two Saturdays baking pound cakes to serve after the tours.†   (source)
  • Well, who is to say that their love of that heritage isn't as misguided as the Fat Man's for his falcon?†   (source)
  • For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.†   (source)
  • Even then, the INS thinks it's good adoption practice to place the child with someone in his own country so his heritage can be preserved.†   (source)
  • An English heritage would explain his extraordinary charm and smooth manner, so unusual in brutish, clangorous Chicago.†   (source)
  • What heritage?†   (source)
  • As they aged, while my father grew closer to his heritage, my mother developed a passion for gardening, and she spent hours pruning flowers in the backyard.†   (source)
  • Considering your circumstances and the fear that Galbatorix wields among your people, I might understand that you were raised in darkness, ignorant of your heritage.†   (source)
  • There Oromis revealed the truth about Eragon's heritage: that he wasnot, in fact, Morzan's son but Brom's, though he and Murtagh did share the same mother, Selena.†   (source)
  • Considering our heritage and the assistance the House of Langfeld has rendered you in this cause, it is insulting of you to ignore the rights of my office.†   (source)
  • The closer they got to the Hall of Accords, now looming above them, the thicker the clusters of faerie protection spells were; even Helen, with her partial heritage, was beginning to feel it.†   (source)
  • The image showed a young, black-haired woman of mixed heritage with exotic eyes and coffee-toned skin.†   (source)
  • I could honor the cultural depth and longevity of my Chinese heritage, while feeling just as passionate about the deep artistic traditions of the French and the American commitment to opportunity and the future.†   (source)
  • Every time they build a city on the banks of a river, they remember their heritage, buried deep in their subconscious.†   (source)
  • He still had the olive tone to his skin that echoed his Italian heritage, and the hazel eyes she remembered, though they had the gold-ringed pupils of lycanthropy now.†   (source)
  • Not that Franklin denies his Latino heritage-a mortal sin at a place like Brown, where group identity is celebrated by 160 different student groups, many of them aligned along ethnic or racial lines.†   (source)
  • Two white men in room and one white man talking in black voice about, Put the brothers in touch with their cultural heritage.†   (source)
  • Both had suffered taunts at school because of their heritage and faith, both had unhappy early sexual experiences with French boys, and both had taken up the study of medicine in the autumn of 2003, Natalie at the Universite de Montpellier, one of the oldest medical schools in the world, and Leila at Universite Paris-Sud.†   (source)
  • Each national group has brought something of its heritage in the form of thousands of different customs, which have become integral parts of life in this country.†   (source)
  • This is my heritage.†   (source)
  • If he's ashamed of his heritage— GEORGE: Oh, don't be so proud of yourself, Bennie—just because you look eccentric.†   (source)
  • She had inherited the Truebas' Spanish and Arab blood, their regal bearing and haughty grin, and the olive skin and dark eyes of her Mediterranean genes, all colored by her mother's heritage, from which she drew a sweetness no Trueba had ever known.†   (source)
  • When he and Saphira arrived at Uru'baen, Eragon was surprised to discover that Nasuada had restored its name to Ilirea, out of respect for its history and heritage.†   (source)
  • To Eragon and Saphira, Oromis said, "Watch you carefully, for this is of great importance to your heritage as Riders."†   (source)
  • I have always been uncomfortable around people who are somehow ashamed of their heritage, who went to speech school to get rid of their accents.†   (source)
  • Some believe it's a carryover from the old days of the Kennedy heritage in Ireland, where the leader of a clan commonly had free rein to sleep with women outside of marriage.†   (source)
  • One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judaeo Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.†   (source)
  • The work of Aquinas and of the Greeks, as interpreted by Aquinas, was to Adler the capstone of the Western intellectual heritage.†   (source)
  • There was no family left to claim him, and all that remained to him of his heritage was the medallion he wore around his neck.†   (source)
  • (Nastily) Let's face it, baby, your heritage is nothing but a bunch of raggedy-assed spirituals and some grass huts†   (source)
  • When we took this decision, and subsequently formulated our plans, the ANC heritage of nonviolence and racial harmony was very much with us.†   (source)
  • With a long-haired, bearded man of Puerto Rican heritage named Angel Franco, who referred to me almost fondly as "big, dumb white boy," I set out to report a story that carried me deep into the real New York, another story about living and dying and that fragile, shivering place in between.†   (source)
  • Let the word go forth from this time and place, from friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage ...†   (source)
  • It seemed that I had to dive down through the waters of history even to glimpse these brilliant gouramis and golden carp who dwelled so easily in the distilled fathoms of their heritage.†   (source)
  • Albert used to tell her in his slightly didactic way that the Italians of his experience, his Harlem and Bronx upbringing, his Calabrian heritage, tended to be wary of certain kinds of accomplishment, as immigrants, people who needed protection against the cold hand of the culture, who needed sons and daughters and sisters and others because who else could they trust with their broken English, their ten thousand uprooted tales, and he came home one day, the thirteen-year-old son, and sa†   (source)
  • It was my heritage again, Will.†   (source)
  • These were Bruenor's heritage, and though he had never seen them before, their arcane lines and curves seemed comfortably familiar to him.†   (source)
  • It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries and which does not exist at any specific location.†   (source)
  • The visit renewed his enthusiasm for his work and reminded him that there were environments where his heritage could drift into the background.†   (source)
  • In one second we will hear all about the great Ashanti empires; the great Songhay civilizations; and the great sculpture of Benin—and then some poetry in the Bantu—and the whole monologue will end with the word heritage!†   (source)
  • As an Afrikaner whose conscience forced him to reject his own heritage and be ostracized by his own people, he showed a level of courage and sacrifice that was in a class by itself.†   (source)
  • My heritage.†   (source)
  • To bring them on board, we proposed certain significant compromises: we agreed to the use of double ballots for provincial and national legislatures; guarantees of greater provincial powers; the renaming of Natal province as KwaZulu/Natal; and the affirmation that a principle of "internal" self-determination would be included in the constitution for groups sharing a common cultural and language heritage.†   (source)
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