Quotes About Heritage

My biological dad was Armenian. My last name is Lopez, and I have a darker complexion, which throws people for a loop. My mother's first husband is Mexican. That's where I got Lopez.

American books reflect our common heritage with many other nations and their influence upon our culture. The influences are endless, linking us with the rest of the world. Thus, they are good ambassadors for us.

Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.

Perhaps we shall also have to hold in check other coloured peoples who will soon be in their certain prime, and thus preserve the world, which is the world of our blood, of our children and of our grandchildren.

Know thy history. Let it horrify you; let it inspire you.

Tibet is a beautiful and richly endowed region of our great motherland.

I'm a culture guy: That's who I am and what makes me tick.

I have emotional strings that tie me to Europe.

There is an ancient tradition of how to tie the topknot that gets passed down from parent to child. In my case, my mom taught me it. So this is a tradition, and not all Sikhs know it actually.

The British Isles are awash with the choice of beautiful historic churches, abbeys, and cathedrals where one king or another has tied the knot and bestowed a royal precedent.

Even though I am very tied to and close to my heritage, I learned Spanish in college; I didn't grow up with it. Growing up in South Texas is different from Miami or L.A. where it is a necessity to speak Spanish.

Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human.

I feel very tied to Ireland and the U.K. and that side of the world.

Culture in general is important, and people's identify is tied up in it. It's how we connect with others.

I'm trying to build something that lasts forever. If it's tied to my legacy as an athlete, then when I'm gone, it will have no momentum or can't keep selling.

I grew up with so much of the identity of being Muslim and being Arab tied around politics.

More than anything, a lot of our family's history is tied to food. It's just one of those things.

Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood.

There are very close ties between the Jewish and Mormon people.

I've lived all my life in the U.S., but to be brutally honest, I don't really have any ties to the country apart from my mum and dad. Most of the rest of my family live in the Stockport area, and I've always related more to that side of my background.

My father hails from Shantigrama in Hassan, but my family moved to Bengaluru. Even though I was born and raised in Bengaluru, I have strong ties with my roots.

By God's grace, the only property my parents gave me was a good body. No BP, no sugar, no hereditary problems. Small build, tight skin.

We were created for belonging, made to behold the heritage of our creative diligence in children and grandchildren and in the legacy of a home forged and tended in a specific place on earth.