Quotes About Heritage

No matter what his birth certificate said or didn't say, he was Billy Dent's son.

We have forgotten that the proper function of the school is to transmit the cultural heritage of one generation to the next generation, and to so train the minds of the new generation as to make them capable of absorbing ancient learning and applying it to the problem of its own day.

And he said, "It is not that Eleazar knows more Torah than I do but that he is descended from greater men than I am. Happy is the person whose ancestors have gained merit for him. Happy is the person who has a 'peg' on which to hang.

When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our heritage. We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

I kind of have found my identity through the music, through the roots music of North Carolina, and kind of realized that that's my identity as a North Carolinian.

I don't think at that time I realized how important it was and how important it was for me to be here and carry on that legacy in our family of being a photographer.

People just think Africa is this one thing. So if you're from Nigeria, then you're the same as somebody from Kenya; not realizing that within Nigeria, right, we have 250 different ethnic groups, right? Two hundred and fifty different languages.

I really love my hometown. I carry that with me.

Judaism is interesting in that there is something there that I think you just can't understand if you're not a Jew - it moves into a realm of true mystery.

Consumer behaviour is a powerful realm from which to explore our biological heritage.

Like most reasonable people, it saddens me when I see Americans celebrating a heritage they don't understand.

I am from a rebel blood line.

I was born to two rebellious people and it is in my blood to speak my mind.

Haiti is not a world aside, a world apart. Culture and imaginations have always been part of our rebirth.

I grew up listening to the Neville Brothers and the Rebirth Brass Band.

Hip Hop is the rebirth of civilization. For people who were disconnected from their continent, from their language, from their culture, and from their ancestry, Hip Hop represented a step toward rediscovering what it means to be a Black American, or to be a Latino American.

Like the Caribbean Windrush generation, my parents came to this country from the Commonwealth in the 1960s. They, too, came to help rebuild this country and offer all that they had.

I think it's important to recall... what you remember your grandmother making, where you're from and the foods you enjoyed as a child yourself, and pass that information off to your kids.

My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled.

I have received all this criticism because I am a Latin American.

The American war of 1861-65 is recent enough to be embedded still in cultural memory.

I am white. I am Jewish. I am an immigrant. I am a Russian American. But until recently I haven't focused so much on those parts of my identity. I've always thought of myself simply as a normal, unhyphenated American.