Quotes About Heritage

We keep a Jewish household and are raising our daughters Jewish.

I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.

I was always looking at footage of dancers from Nicholas Brothers to Ralph Brown to Sand Man to Miller Brothers and Lois, and I grew up looking at old footage.

Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.

My grandparents - both of my mother's parents - were actors, and they ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company, through the town of Reading, where I come from.

My father ran an insurance company, but he passed away when I was 8. My mother was an economist working for the government of Liberia. But both my grandmothers were entrepreneurs in rural West Africa.

My father, John, ran the Dowd Insurance Co. in town, which was started by his great-grandfather. My mother, Dolores, was a homemaker who kept an eye on all of us.

We are extraordinarily lucky in the U.K. to have inherited a diverse range of cities that bear the imprints of many centuries of human habitation.

Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.

I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens.

Before my parents came to England from Calcutta in the 1970s, they used to go to games at Eden Gardens.

Delhi is not just India Gate and Lal Qila, its way beyond that. There are a lot of things that's Delhi, which only a Dilliwalla can understand.

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

I didn't get the charm gene.

I have the Cuban gene of speaking very loudly.

My family is funny. I think you're born with the gene.

I think everything that I've ever played has somehow trickled down from Gene Krupa.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

I am a first generation American, and my family is from Bulgaria.

I want to have generational money.

Passion has been in my DNA for generations.

I'm a fighting man, a fighting man with generations of fighting men before me in my family. That's all we do: we fight.

Only the very best clubs are able to pass the baton of continuity down through the generations.