Quotes About Heritage

I got to Nashville on Labor Day weekend in 1972. And the Grand Ole Opry is still there, the Country Music Hall of Fame is still there. And the roots of country music are still there. It's where the authenticity and the empowering force lies.

When I was growing up, my dad and I would go hunting and camping every weekend. Like everyone in my family, he is an amazing cook, and I've tried to learn a lot from all of them.

My great-grandmother, who was known as Nana, passed away before I was born, but she and my mother were very, very close. For as long as I can remember, we made Nana's waffles in my house. It was a weekend tradition.

I'm the first person in my family to play poker.

I've never lived in Eastern Europe, although both my wife and I have ancestors in Poland and Russia - but I can see the scenes I create.

My great-grandparents came from Poland. Interestingly enough, they were named Adam and Eve. But I do not believe they are the original.

Hinde Esther Singer was born in Poland on March 31, 1881, the daughter of Bathsheva and Pinchos Mendel Singer. Bathsheva was an intellectual, but both Bathsheva's father and her husband disapproved of erudite women.

My grandmother was born in Russia, and she came through Poland on her way to America in the early 20s. She moved to Brooklyn.

My father emigrated from Poland and my mother from Romania. There was no affluence in my family.

I always say I have two hearts - one beats for Poland and the other for Germany.

Poland is my home, my roots are here. There is nowhere I would rather live.

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

My dad is Polish. My mom is Moroccan, and I grew up around all kinds of different languages, and I love playing with it, and I love picking up new melodies.

There is no Polish culture without Jewish culture.

Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.

My mother's Polish; my dad was Irish.

I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way.

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.

Ferrari used to be the car that you kept in your garage, took out to polish and show, and put back into the garage.

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

My family history, like that of many Polish, German and Jewish families from Central Europe in the 20th century, is complex.

My parents are Polish. I don't know anything about Italian-ness.

My mom is Jamaican and Chinese, and my dad is Polish and African-American, so I had a pretty diverse culinary background to work with.

I'm just as happy to be Polish as I am to be German.