Quotes About Heritage

I'm from East Texas, yes.

I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come.

My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida.

My grandparents moved to Texas from the South after the U.S. Civil War and settled on small farms in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.

I'm not a super blues player, but I was exposed to the Texas blues sound while I was growing up, and that definitely rubbed off on me.

I come from Texas. We're a different brand of people. You're not changing who I am.

The bottom line is, Texas and its people are pretty much what most people mean when they use the broader term 'America.'

I love and respect the West - you can't live in Texas and not do that.

My father is from Jamaica, my mother is from the U.K., but I was adopted as an infant by a really wonderful family in Alberta, Canada. What we refer to as 'Texas of the North.'

I'm from Houston, Texas.

I grew up on Geto Boys and of course UGK, who put my hometown of Port Arthur, Texas, on the map. I was about Goodie Mob and OutKast too.

I'm just a kid from El Paso, Texas.

I grew up in America - I was born and raised in Texas. I might look different, but at the same time, I'm pretty American.

My father 'Pappy' who is black, is from Galveston and Fort Worth, Texas. My mother, who is white, is from San Diego.

All we did was take what we were and brought it forward. We obviously had a great amount of pride in being from Texas.

Texas kind of operates as if we're our own little country.

I take a lot of pride in being from Texas. I love all parts of Texas - even the things I hate about Texas I love.

It has been established that most Indians have the same DNA profile irrespective of caste, religion, or region. Yet we find our text books talking about India being multiethnic.

Our Civil War history is important, but it belongs in textbooks and museums - not a place of allegiance on our Capitol grounds.

If everyone in your class has heroes, and they can relate to them in textbooks and literature, and then you don't see any of your heritage there, you feel less than. And I always wanted to be able to make Latin kids like myself feel more than.

My parents had a factory, so I was linked to the textile and fashion industry.

I have written many works to accompany Old Church Slavonic texts.

The Bodleian Library, next to the Sheldonian, is one of the great libraries of the world. As well as holding most of the books printed in England since the first quarter of the 17th century, it houses priceless printed texts, manuscripts, and collections.