Quotes About Heritage

I understand them. I understand where they came from, what their lifestyle was there. But my parents didn't push us to be like them. They said do whatever you think right, but remember the important things in life.

Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.

One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.

My husband is American but Italian. Then I have the Mexicano side. I see both in my kids. My daughter is more Italian - she leans towards pizza - and my son leans more towards guacamole and puts lime in everything.

Cod and clementine is one of the things my grandmother cooked for my mum when she was a child. Never one for waste, she'd keep the peel whenever she had a clementine, and this dish puts it to work.

For me, putting on my charro outfit is a matter of pride and it's a very big responsibility.

Every nation has a flag.

For me, the things like the Confederate flag - I just don't think that it does anybody much good, and it certainly causes a lot of people a lot of pain.

The only reason we used the Confederate flag was just because we were from the South, and we were proud of that.

I try as much as I can to bring out my own British flavor.

Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.

Estonia is proud of the fact that the country today has a flourishing and happy Jewish life.

I speak fluent Kosovan.

I'm so Filipino. I'm fluent in Filipino.

I have grown up in Chennai, so I speak Tamil fluent.

I have a huge connect with South. My father can speak fluent Tamil. He studied in Bengaluru. My brother studied in Kodaikanal. I am familiar with the South.

I want to be a proud daughter of Punjab. Celebrate my roots - fly, flourish, write stories, characters. Don't hold me and my voice to ransom. Enable me, don't disable me!

My family used to put on a small folk festival.

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

I love Punjabi Folk.

My dad's side of the family were calm folk from England, but the other side just loved to party. Somewhere between those two factions is me.

I started learning Bharatnatyam from the age of three. I have also learnt folk dance.

I've grown up with bhangra and Haryanvi folk dances.

With 'Ta chuma,' which is a Garhwali folk song, I feel that there will be a strong connect which people will feel and they will get closer to folk music.