Quotes About Heritage

Of course, our roots are in Germany, it always will be the feeling of home.

My passion is from my mom. She was passionate about leaving Germany and coming to America and making a life for her and her family. My father - discipline, a chain of command, it works this way.

It has this royal feeling - one doesn't get this feel anywhere else; the culture here is so rich and the people here are so respectful - that was one of the reasons why I decided to get married at the Tijara Fort in Alwar.

Some of the most rewarding times my brothers and I have are when all of us get together, and we can see what we've been building genetically and culturally.

You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.

My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from Detroit, so I would go back and forth to Africa a lot.

I grew up in the U.K. and now reside in the United States, and my family is from Ghana.

I do feel my African side, but I've always wanted to play for Germany. Ghana did contact me, but I told them and my dad that I was sure I wanted to play for Germany.

As Latinos, we are many, and our geography is gigantic.

You can take the girl out of the estate, but you can't take the estate out of the girl.

I'm a curry and rice girl.

I believe that you should not be just raised on what the music is right then. You should be raised on what is from your past, what your parents have grown up with, because it's a really big piece of your culture that you need to know about, and I'm glad my mother has done that for me.

I'm really glad I got to represent my country and make my people proud.

I was brought up in Glasgow, and I was a big Celtic follower.

My family are all Glasgow. I was born there. Govan. When it was very tough. The tenements. All that stuff.

As a screenwriter and a half-Jew, I tend to look at the glass half-empty.

What would the world say if the Globe, now that it has at last been found, is not excavated?

This is the U.S.A., and it's the most glorious place to live in the world.

Visva-Bharati has a glorious legacy.

The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.

I lost my accent pretty quickly, so everyone assumes I was born and raised in America. But I'm very much still in touch with my Filipino roots. That will never go away.

When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much more exotic than I used to.

I was born and raised in Chicago and I kind of wanted to go home to where I'm from, where my roots are.

God bless the great state of Louisiana.