Quotes About Heritage

That wasn't your mom in you—that was your dad.

Mom's Israeli. Dad's Brazilian. What can I say? I am Embassy Row personified. You really lucked out in the best friend department

I'm the solution to a two-hundred-year-old

Caroline knew what this really is... It is a fourteen-day celebration of a time when people like them killed people like me. - Princess Ann

Estoy cansada de no saber dónde morirme. Ésa es la mayor tristeza del emigrado. ¿Qué tenemos nosotros que ver con los cementerios de los países donde vivimos? [...] ¿No comprendéis? Nosotros somos aquellos que miraron sus pensamientos uno por uno durante treinta años. Durante treinta años suspiramos por nuestro paraíso perdido, un paraíso nuestro, único, especial.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Cooking is a language through which all cultures speak.

Royal Oaks, Michigan

I am the son of many chiefs. My sword is sharp and terrible. It is the mightiest of things when the pot of war boils fiercely.

For the moment, I'm just Daire—a girl straddling two bloodlines. One I was given—one I must earn.

a pesar del aislamiento de nuestras propias vidas, siempre seguimos conectados con nuestros ancestros; nuestros cuerpos guardan los recuerdos de aquellos que nos antecedieron, sea en los rasgos que heredamos o en una disposición que está grabada en nuestras almas.

Ser de un determinado lugar quizá consiste en eso: no comprender en qué consiste.

If you are trying to raise a child to be a Jew, then you have to create a sense of Jewish identity. You really weaken that sense of identity if you celebrate two religions.

If we deny our culture and become nothing and everything, that weakens us.

I do have this big weakness: I over-cooperate with people. People say it's because I'm Irish-Italian from Middlesbrough, and me dad was always like that, y'know - 'Get the job done.'

One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness.

Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.

Forests are precious resources of the country and a wealth to be handed down to posterity.

I've got to where am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.

We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed.

If you look back 600 years ago, royals' sole goal was to keep their wealth within the family.

I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.