Quotes About Heritage

My father was a fighter. My grandfather was a fighter. It's just in my blood.

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

I always wanted to follow in the footsteps of my maternal grandfather, who was a doctor.

I don't think there's anything less attractive than a man over-dyeing things on his face, so I'm going to try, for as long as I can, to age as my male forefathers before me. My father started getting grays when he was in his 30s, as did my grandfather before him, so I don't want to look perpetually young.

My grandfather is from Peshawar; he was born there.

My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.

I go back to Africa every year. I have a home there. You know, my grandfather lives back there in Cameroon.

I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100.

For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.

I'm so American that I had grandfathers who actually fought a battle against each other.

I was Everett LeRoi Jones. My grandfather's name was Everett.

My grandfather was born in 1920. His grandfather was born in 1860, at the beginning of the Civil War, into an America where slavery had yet to be abolished. And so, as I have sometimes thought about it, I dodged slavery by just five generations.

I love blues. My grandfather did blues.

My grandfather was a church organist and would sing in choirs and was a musical genius to a certain extent.

I think everyone in the band has had someone that's served in their family. I wouldn't say that anybody has a military family, but both of my grandfathers were in the military.

'Frances' is a longtime family name on my dad's side. My grandfather, father, brother, and my daughter's name is Frances.

Deacon Jones grew up a street over from my grandfather, where I was raised.

My dad's really funny. The male sense of humor - like my grandfather's and such - is pretty bizarre. Basically my dad's side of the family is where the bizarreness comes from. It's a little goofy and a little out there.

Carrying on the Blanchard name is a huge honor for me because my grandfather, my father and my step-father - they've all put a lot into their legacy and for me to carry that on, it's a lot of weight on my shoulders.

I have memories of being on the farm with my grandfather.

My grandfather loved the countryside.

Bihar has always drawn me, ever since I was a child, brought up on the stories about my grandfather Babasaheb Soman.

I come from a wrestling background - my father and grandfather were into wrestling.

My grandfather's from Pinson, Alabama, all the Truckses came from there.