Quotes About Heritage

I'm a Queens boy at the end of the day.

I grew up in a semi-attached row house in Queens in New York. And my family and my grandparents and my father's from Brooklyn, and so you're essentially an outer boroughs kid, you're growing up.

Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens.

My family is from Elmhurst, Queens, 54th Avenue, but I was born in Northern California.

Kings and queens are expected to have offspring to carry on the name. There are no such demands on American presidents, but there is an expectation. There is a hope.

I have a million questions about my granddad and no one to talk to.

I love the language of, you know, the old black country man with a blues guitar and... boots and the quick banter.

There is something so quiet and so industrious, something so Viking about the Scots.

Looking back now, I can see that my dad was a real fighter. A lot of people thought, 'Why don't you keep the Jewish stuff quiet?' They were anti-Semitic Jews. People who were afraid. People who came here and made it and anglicized themselves and didn't want to associate with their past.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

'Showboat' is the quintessential family show.

It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.

I credit where I'm from so much for my outlook on life, my personality, the rawness and the countryness about me. All these quirky things are because of where I'm from.

I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.

The true Negro does not want integration... He realizes his potential is far better among his own race.

I'm mixed race, and it's often hard for me to fit into period pieces.

Glorious shall be the battle when the time comes to fight for our people and our race.

My mom and dad are from Mexicali, and I feel more Mexican than others who were born in Mexico because I fought for my race and for Mexico.

When you set a play in the French Quarter in New Orleans, it's hard not to acknowledge the whole African-American, French, white mixing of races. That's what the French Quarter is: it's a Creole community.

An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.

My dad took me to the racetrack for the first time when I was 2 or 3... Anything with a motor, that was in my blood.

Racing runs in the blood of my family and my dream was to do the Dakar one day.

Drag racing has played a big role in In-N-Out's history, and it is also an important part of my family history.