Quotes About Heritage

Lynn's parents refused to accept Sean Casey's Indian blood and, in fact, exhibited a kind of denial that was nearly pathological in its intensity.

My father is the harbinger of death and destruction. My grandmother the Great Destroyer. My mother is the goddess of the hunt. I think I'll be okay. (Kat) Yeah, you do have the history of absolute terror and cruelty in your veins. (Sin) Remember that if you ever come between me and my chocolate bar. (Kat)

Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.' (Talon)

We're multigenerational Squires. (Carl) Which means what? You prance around with tinfoil armor and plastic swords pretending to be knights? (Nick)

You know, my whole life I've taken pride in the fact that I'm Greek. But I have to say that after you and Artemis, I'm seriously beginning to hate some of my heritage. Is it congenital or is there something else that has made you such a bitch? (Tory)

You're really not right, are you? (Sin) With my background and genetic makeup, buddy, you're lucky I'm as normal as I am. (Kat)

Holy crap, Caleb! You're my uncle. Nick No! Caleb It's worse. He's the half-brother of your great-grandfather. Kody You're not helping. Caleb No, but I'm entertaining myself at your adorable expense. Kody Yeah, y'all are missing the important fact. To a Cajun, that makes him my uncle. Nick Great. I always wanted to be a monkey's uncle. Nice to know I finally succeeded. Caleb

Menyara's Creole accent was as thick as his mother's jar of refrigerated roux, and Nick loved the sound of it. He wasn't quite as pleased with his own. No matter how hard he tried to hide his accent, it always came out in certain words like praline, etouffee, pecan, and any time he lost his temper. You could easily tell how mad he was by how Cajun he sounded. And if he started spewing all Cajun words, duck.

She was from the bloodline of kings. He was from the bloodline of killers.' (Carlos)

In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of life. If one monastery is destroyed, sometimes it happens.

I lived in London for eight years and I like to say that I am two parts American and one part British because I lived there for a third of my life

Nobody understood what it was like to be black and Jewish... being different from everyone else just made me a lot stronger.

West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations.

I've been doing African dance all my life.

I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.

Apart from life, a strong constitusion and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla

We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.

There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.

Baseball is a religion in my classroom. It's a very important part of life, baseball.

No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts from scratch.

The further along we get on our life journey the more we wonder about those who traveled before us and paved the road.

I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly discover that they have been influenced by every type of music prevalent in America.

I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.