Quotes About Heritage

I did grow up in a southern Christian background, and I have friends from all walks of life, but I will never forget from where I came.

In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.

As our company grew and we began growing our family stateside - with heritages ranging from Liberian and Sierra Leonean to Irish, Indian, Swedish, Filipino, German, and beyond - our different cultural influences and walks of life helped us even better understand the criticality of an inclusive point of view.

There's a plethora of genres that I've been introduced to, but that's only because of the foundation that was laid growing up in New Orleans. I know it's a cliche thing to say, but it's very gumbo-like. You get that here. You can mix well with all different walks of life. That's what New Orleans is. It's like no other place.

The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before.

Honestly, there's so many great benefits of wearing a kilt: It's very free, it's got its own aeration, and they're very comfortable.

I do speak a bit of Bengali.

My father is a Malayalee, my mother is a Bengali.

Not many people know that I am a Bengali actually.

Yes, I have an Australian wife; she is half Bengali, half British.

My father is a Sindhi and my mother, a Bengali.

You hold everybody that's Polynesian or Samoan on your shoulders. You want to do your best to represent that in the best way that you can.

My little girl was born in Los Angeles, and my wife was born in Bethlehem, Pa.

My mother loved the Bible.

I'm a big believer in that I'm here for a reason, and I don't want to forget where I'm from.

My dad is Chinese/Malaysian and my mum is Austrian, so food was always a big deal in our house.

I am proud to be the son of YSR, who had left me a very big family.

My mum came from an incredibly big family.

I am not afraid to play Latin roles - that was a big part of my life.

The animals of Australia play a big part in our identity throughout the whole entire world and for us to lose that will be very sad.

Australia's a big part of my life.

My biggest influence is my city. There's so much there. We have our own lingo, food, music and culture.

I don't know much about my biological background.

Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.