Quotes About Heritage

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

Part of the fabric of America is that we have people from different countries who've come here and they are American, and yet they embrace their home ancestral culture. And this is their new home. And that's part of what makes this country unique in the history of human beings on this earth.

All the events that have made up the character and fabric of British culture and everything that has happened to make up the fabric of America culture - art and music - includes the faces and the colours of a lot of people.

I grew up in a world where music was a way of life, and I'm part of a family that in some facet or another, every single one of us has continued to live in that world.

There's a sense of family in Colorado; there's such a pride factor there.

My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.

My father was a storekeeper at a factory in west London.

I grew up in a Glaswegian house because my parents are fairly Glaswegian-sounding.

I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.

While growing up in Scotland, which has a large Indian population, I would end up eating a lot of Indian dishes. So, it is familiar to me.

When you have parents that come from a country that you weren't raised in, you feel this weird sense of familiarity, like you've returned to something.

Some people insist that hallowed professional teams should never change their nicknames.

L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things. But Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom's family was one of the early families in California, so there's history going back to the 1840s or '50s.

Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves.

Henry Louis Gates

There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.

I didn't technically grow up in the South, but both my parents were from there.

I'm not technically royal.

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.

My first cousin, by the way, on my father's mother side was John Marshall Harlan, who was a Supreme Court justice, as was his grandson. And I think a lot of my fight and my work to struggle for fairness and the techniques of theater and in subject matter probably stems in some way from some sense I have of his issues in life.

I wanted to make '13 Assassins' in the old manner, to use old techniques and not to rely on modern-day ones such as CGI, or editing that changes the speed.

Usually, when people think of marquetry, they think of Dutch 17th-century furniture with inlaid flowers and jugs. Our goal is to break down the barriers between old and new, to combine traditional marquetry techniques with a modern idiom.

Looting and site destruction are global problems. We have a tough road ahead, and one key will be developing more collaborations and using new technologies like satellite imagery.

Jamaica is more than just the 'brand' the world recognizes so well; it's a place of pride for the people who live here, its educational institutions, its sports achievements, its science and technology growth.