Quotes About Heritage

I listened to gospel music because that was just our culture, you know? My parents are pastors.

In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me.

I was named after my paternal grandmother, my dadi. She died before I was born, which is why my parents named me Amy.

It was always a goal of mine to go back to Cuba, where my paternal lineage comes from.

I'm extremely patriotic. I'll always be Canadian.

We like being English, but we're not that patriotic.

I'm hugely patriotic.

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.

Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.

My family is patriotic.

Thanksgiving is America's favourite holiday, and a brilliant piece of personal as well as patriotic calendrical invention.

For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

I want America to be more like America, if you will. I want the songs, that patriotism we have.

In Benin, there's a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing.

I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama.

We say Paul Ryan was grown in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation.

It scares me how some people don't respect the paths that have been paved for us, and who they've been paved by. It scares me because I don't want it to lose the family oriented feeling and the feeling you get at the Grand Ole Opry listening to Jack Greene or Jim Ed Brown, and thinking, 'Yeah, this is what it's all about.'

Everything we've ever done has been for artistry's sake, and for the greater good and paying homage to those who came before us and paving the way for those who come after us.

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

God has not made anything that I know of that pays so much attention to who their father and mother is as us.

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.