Quotes About Heritage

On the Old Course at St. Andrews: This is the origin of the game, golf in its purest form, and it's still played that way on a course seemingly untouched by time. Every time I play here, it reminds me that this is still a game

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

The American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.

You can take a boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of a boy.

Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.

All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

My dad was Quaker and a businessman.

My parents were Quaker, and they were part of that old self-improving working class.

I'm Mexican and Kenyan at the same time. I've seen the quarrels over my nationality, but I'm Kenyan and Mexican at the same time. So again, I am Mexican-Kenyan, and I am fascinated by carne asada tacos.

I'm a real Swede! In fact, I'm a quarter Finnish.

I'm a quarter Indian; my grandfather's originally from New Delhi.

My wife and I started a breeding program where we breed American quarter horses.

My maternal grandmother was Cantonese, so I'm a quarter Chinese and half Irish and a quarter Scottish and raised by English parents living in Scotland.

I don't know whether I'm half, quarter or what. I just know I'm aboriginal.

Let me tell you something, I'm a big believer, when it comes to quarterbacks and point guards: Who's your dad? Who's your dad?

My grandma is very musical and can play piano by ear, and my grandpa was in a quartet in Kentucky.

We do not want the Quebec nation to disappear.

I am from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I was born there, and I am a twelfth Montrealer.

I want my own country, not against Canada but for Quebec.

I am an English-speaking Canadian, but my entire family - Russian exiles and the Canadians they married - is buried in Quebec, and if Quebec were to separate, I would feel I had been cut in two.

I grew up in Flatbush, Queens, Laurelton. These are places where it's mostly black and there was a lot of diversity.

I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures.