Quotes About Heritage

Culturally, musically, historically Cuba and Puerto Rico are like two wings of one bird.

In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.

My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teaching credentials. He is adventurous - he worked his way through Alaska at age seventeen and paid for his living expenses by winning at the poker table.

In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow.

I am constantly reminded that as Texans, we are exceptional people.

Texas will again lift its head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.

I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas.

I was born in Abbott, Texas, a little small town in central Texas, and I was raised by my grandparents. And my parents divorced when I was six months old, and my grandparents raised me.

If you go down to Texas, people are real proud about and they rep Texas.

I don't want people to think I'm not proud to represent Texas.

I still think probably the only thing I'm suited for is being a boy from Texas.

There's a lot of culture vultures out there taking our culture down here in Texas.

I have my real name and RJ. I've gone by RJ since I was eight, but I was named Roy after my grandfather. They called me Little Roy, which sounded like Leroy with a Texas accent, but my mom didn't want to have a Leroy as a son, so it went to RJ.

I will say, I'm a great, great, great grandson of Stephen F. Austin. He founded Austin, Texas, which is kind of cool.

I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever.

One day, it just dawned on me that I'm from Texas, and that's what I am.

I was born in Nashville, but my whole family is from East Texas, so I consider myself a dual citizen.

I still feel like I'm the girl from Texas.

I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.

Well, I'm a Texas boy, and we have denim in our blood.

Saying you're from Texas makes you kind of proud.

My Longhorns are registered and I am a member of the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association.

Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!

I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.