Quotes About Heritage

Racing's in my blood. My mum met my dad when she went to buy her first motorbike in his shop.

I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.

Most Muslims do not 'choose' Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way that they choose to become fans of Coldplay or Radiohead. Most Muslims, like people of any faith, are born into their religion.

Raft Point is among the greatest examples of ancient indigenous art we know of.

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

I was born and raised on 'Singin' in the Rain.' It's in my work. It's in me.

We are a part of this unique, complex, and complicated fabric of what it means to be an American. Americans come in all colors, creeds, and colors of the rainbow, and we can celebrate this together.

My grandmother would talk about having bananas at teatime and carrying palm fronds when the monsoon rains came, and I accepted all of those stories because they were like poetry.

We must do our best to raise the public awareness of the past in all its richness and complexity.

I'm very proud of the way that I was raised, I'm very proud of the way that my parents raised me.

I was raised with a huge Armenian influence, always hearing stories of Armenia, celebrating Armenian holidays.

My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies.

I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.

I come from a part of the world - raised in a part of the world where you're born a Democrat, baptized a Democrat.

People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.

I'm part Maori. My mum's Maori, and she raised me. And my grandma, she's Maori.

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.

We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.

My roots are from Iran and so, I cook Iranian dishes that have been passed down the generations in our family. I was born and raised in India and enjoy cooking Indian food, too.

My mother and grandmother raised me. Queens raised me.

Both my parents are Italian. My mom was born and raised in Italy. My dad was born in Canada, but then they moved to Italy.

My family influenced me very deeply because my dad came from a musical background, from the hillbilly music part of it, and all that music came over from Scotland and Ireland and England in to the Appalachian Mountains and Ozark Mountains, where I was raised.

I was raised as a Muslim.

As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.