Quotes About Heritage

As little boys, my brother and I used to spend hours with my grandmother, asking her about the details of how she came to America. She could only give us a smattering of details, but they all found their way into our collective imagination, eventually becoming a part of our own cultural identity and connection to the past.

My Chinese grandmother was a dressmaker, so I always enjoyed dressing up and looking cool.

My Indian grandmother was born in Punjab.

You should just feel comfortable with food and your own culinary culture, whatever your mother and grandmother know.

I have been singing since the time I was two. My mom says I would sing Gujarati songs with my grandmother when I was a kid.

Everything I am is because of my grandmother.

A lot of people in the African-American community are raised by grandmothers, and that relationship is a special bond and circle.

I'm like an international girl all day long. But I love the black women in my life: my grandmother, my mom.

Both of my grandmothers are aging well, and my mom is, too. I've got some good genes.

My father was born in 1925. He's pretty old. And his grandmother's cousin, I think, is Svante Arrhenius.

I have goals, I have my purpose. I want to build upon what my grandpa and my dad and my stepdad did in the past.

I used to live in Devon when I was 8 years old. My mum, my grandma, and grandpa are all British.

Dizzy Gillespie would come by, eating gumbo. It was crazy. My grandparents were friends with all of them. Dee Dee Bridgewater, all of them, they'd come through.

My mom is from Canada. Both my grandparents were from Canada.

I grew up with my grandparents around. I think that's important for a child. If for no other reason than to hear stories about their parents when they were children.

My grandparents and great-grandparents were classic East European/Russian Jewry. Quasky was the name until Grandpa Quasky changed it in 1948.

My great grandparents are Scottish, and I have this very tenuous connection which I try and bump up whenever I can, because I'd much rather be Scottish than English.

My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service.

I believe that people are what happened to their grandparents.

All my friends had grandparents who had accents. I thought all grandparents were supposed to have accents. My friends were all second-generation, as I was.

I took the 'Lee' from my grandparents, who took care of me during the day while my mom was away working.

My family were all entrepreneurs, including my parents and grandparents.

My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.

I sort of take cues from my grandparents.