Quotes About Heritage

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

My professional and personal roots in Alabama are deep and lasting.

We might all come from different places, but home means something - something powerful - to each of us.

I am many different things, and that is why I am so proud to be American.

I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.

As a Black woman and a Black person my experience has been very different. I have a deep love and connection for my country and my culture, but I also had a lot of difficulty growing up there.

I love being white, and I think it's something to be very proud of. I don't want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life.

Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.

I've always been interested in Jewish culture, but never had a chance to dip into it.

It wasn't until I was in that world, directing shows and movies, that I realized basically my job is to give back to another generation what the generation before me gave to me.

England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about my own experience, it wasn't England so much as what went before.

We should all know our family's story, all the more so if nobody tells it to us directly and we have to find it out for ourselves.

Since I descend just as directly from Catherine de' Medici as I do from Diane de Poitiers, I have no personal interest in damning the one while glorifying the other.

And sometimes people say, 'Oh well, we all descend from Adam and Eve.' But do you descend from Charlemagne directly? Do you descend from Saint King Louis IX? I do.

There is a lot of history buried in Chicago that I still have yet to discover.

A lot of people have had good discussions about what it means to be American, and we need to broaden our definition.

Everything I do is about Chinese culture. My dishes have to symbolize something because they taste better when people understand.

I love making dishes that my mother used to make.

It seems disrespectful to my parents who left... to hear their story over and over again which always ends with... 'and I'll never go back as long as anyone in the Castro family is in power.' Well, what happens if you can go back? Would you want to see things?

Roy Acuff's from Maynardville, and that's where a lot of my family's from. So he's, I've been told, a distant cousin, as well.

The role of matriarch and patriarch are distinct, and in the King family, we have been blessed with strong examples of both.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

My father was a commercial deep-sea diver in exotic locations and my mom was British and we would travel there every year. So I always had that wanderlust in me.