Quotes About Heritage

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then.

I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.

You know the way it is: sometimes Americans think of us as their backward little cousin. It's the whole shamrock, potatoes, famine, leprechaun thing, all that drunken paddies rubbish.

Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are adding later.

My mum and dad worked in the pottery industry.

I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.

People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.

I very much consider myself British.

I always consider myself a Hyderabadi; my roots are here.

No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.

When you're Jamaican, you don't consider yourself African American even though everyone else considers you that.

Throughout my life, I've had consistent DNA.

All across this world, especially within the African diaspora, we feel like there is a constant devaluing of our culture and our livelihood.

I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life.

There's no real test of how Asian you need to be to be able to own your Asianness, and it's always going to be an area of contention.

When you're looking back at your ancestral history or the cultural context of your identity, it's natural to search for that in the food.

My continent knows more about me than I do myself.

Our language, history, and civilization shine out across every continent.

My love, my passion, my everything is this continent of Africa. I have always celebrated African humanity.

I carry the continent of Africa on my shoulders proudly.

I want to contribute to the culture and keep great writers alive by telling the stories of their lives.

At home we always converse in Oriya.

I'm enormously proud of being the ancestor of a convict. That's mad, isn't it, but I really am.