Quotes About Heritage

My dad, well, he sells tractors, just like my granddad, and I'm darn proud of that.

To me, England is past its sell-by date. It's not the country I grew up in.

Sometimes I think the family I was brought up in was 100 years out of date.

It's Frederick Dierks Bentley, but my whole family goes by their middle name - my sister, my brother. So from day one, I've always been called Dierks.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

Buckeye born and bred. Now an H-O-F-er - even after I'm dead.

Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing with history. We're not thinking about history.

Bahrain is very dear to me.

I was born December 21, 1917, in Cologne, on the Rhine, the son of the sculptor and cabinet-maker, Viktor Boell, and his wife, Maria, nee Hermanns.

I am a first-generation American of Chinese decent. My parents were both born and raised in China and moved to the U.S. in their 20s.

Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us.

To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant political attitude that centers on his or her right to self-definition. I'm a Chicano because I say I am.

In the deep corner of my heart, I'm a Chicagoan, but it's been covered over by 20 years of living in the Bay Area.

I think it is very possible that my deeper character is not very English.

I would say 'Home' is a lot richer and deeper than my earlier classical.

The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.

We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.

I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.

We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?

I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is.

I define myself by my family: my parents or my brother or sister and their families.

We can all be defined by food.

Alabama is defined by its people. It's that simple.

I was born and brought up in Delhi.