Quotes About Heritage

I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

My daddy - whenever he wanted to teach us a lesson, he'd tell us a story. It's an Old South tradition.

I understand what's expected of me. I understand the lineage for the running back position of the Dallas Cowboys.

I've danced hula since I was 5. My mom danced hula as well. It's been in my family from far back and really connected me to my ancestors.

I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.

India's connection with philanthropy didn't begin with western influences. The connection with philanthropy is age-old and ingrained in our value systems.

Meat consumption is a part of our evolutionary heritage; meat production has been a major component of modern food systems. Carnivory should remain, within limits, an important component of a civilization that finally must learn how to maintain the integrity of its only biosphere.

Every lesson I learned as a kid was at the dinner table. Being Greek, Sicilian and Ruthenian - we are an emotional bunch. It is where we laughed, cried and yelled - but most importantly, where we bonded and connected.

My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

My family, they're story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we weren't allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day.

Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table.

A flag translates into everything, from tacky souvenirs to the names of organizations and the way that flags function.

People are asking us, 'Why have you gone country?' And we say, 'Man, we were born country.' They gave us the tag 'Southern rock' years ago as a way of not saying country.

My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.

But now all of a sudden some idiots in Taiwan start to say that they are not Chinese. Their grand parents were Chinese. But for some reason, they feel they are not Chinese.

Even though I grew up in America, at home we spoke mostly Chinese, because my mom is from Taiwan.

You can take the guy out of the neighorhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.

You can take a man out of Ireland, but you can't take the Irishness out of the man.

You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

Chinese martial artists consider themselves to be gardeners, and it's an honor for them to take care of this garden, to better it and hand it over to the generations that follow. I think that's a very important message in a time when personal achievement seems to be the only criteria of success.

Black women know that we've got to take care of it - so we take care of it. It's just embedded in us.

Ancient, woman-centered words and beliefs never, like, fall off the planet. Having long done taken on a life of their own, they - like womankind - evolve, and survive. Chameleon style.

I love many places to which I have no connection, but identifying an ancestor, or someone I think is an ancestor, has taken me to places I'd never have gone to otherwise.