Quotes About Heritage

Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.

Whenever I overhear someone talking in Telugu, be it in the market or any random place, I get excited.

OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality.

You have to remember where you came from, and I definitely have enough brothers and sisters to kick me in the butt whenever I get out of line!

When I have a chance to go back to my village, I always remind myself where I came from.

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

You never get away from that thing in your hometown that it has over you. You don't outgrow where you come from.

My heritage and my culture and where I'm from mean the most to me, more than anything,.

Genetics is where we come from. It's deeply natural to want to know.

I think it's important as an artist to never forget where you're from.

My mom was born in Korea - Seoul, Korea, during the '50s, '51. She was abandoned; her and my uncle were abandoned. My grandfather was a Seabee and adopted my mom and my uncle, and brought them to Compton in the '50s. That's where she was raised.

Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

I'll never forget where I came from. It's always on my mind.

Do not let where you come from define you, but never forget the values you learned from your close community.

Growing up, I knew I was different. But I didn't know what it meant to be Aboriginal. I just knew that I had a really big, extended family. I was taught nothing about who we were or where we came from.

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.

On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.

My parents and my brother and I left the Soviet Union in 1981. I was six, and Dima was sixteen, and that made all the difference. I became an American, whereas Dima remained essentially Russian.

I'm a very proud Australian, always bragging about our country wherever I am in the world.

Every Sri Lankan, and almost every visitor to Sri Lanka, carries a longing for the place in some small form - hiraeth, the Welsh call it - wherever they go and whatever their background. It binds them however much the war and politics might try to divide them.

I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.

Almost any American can connect on some level to a family background of having come across some ocean. They say, 'My great-grandparents came from wherever... this is why we have this last name, why we do this thing at Christmas.' All the details get watered down but don't quite disappear.