Quotes About Heritage

Knowing how much was sacrificed to give me the opportunity to find the thing that lights me up isn't lost on me, and it's something I know a lot of people can relate to, whether their parents arrived here in Australia recently or not.

I have my great grandmother's recipe for black beans, all the way from Cuba, and I know how to make those. I'm actually pretty good at it now. But my first time, the beans actually exploded in the pot, so I had black beans just dripping from the ceiling - which is actually a dream come true for most Cubans. It was a nightmare to clean.

I feel like folk music is almost like an old recipe that is passed on from generation to generation.

Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.

I did not develop a recipe for my mothers biryani. I tried, and I failed, and so I made my own.

I was raised cooking my grandmother's food, my mom's recipes.

Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.

There is so much more than ingredients that go into home cooking. A home-cooked meal includes so much love and recipes that have been passed down through generations, and that is what I truly appreciate.

I've always been very open about how my mother taught me to cook and how I'm delighted to share my family's recipes.

One of the best things about 'The Chefs' Line' has been seeing how these generations-honed recipes fare when they go up against professional ones.

A lot of my recipes I take from foods my grandmother used to cook, things she prepared for family reunions.

My great-grandmother taught my mom to cook and she passed down the recipes to me.

I am learning cooking... all my mother's recipes.

I wanted to honor the memory of my father, who was a great opera singer and died very young, without knowing my success. As I inherited his voice, it is in recognition of that heritage.

Irish poetry has lost the ready ear and the comforts of recognition. But we must go on. We must be true to our own minds.

I recognize the fact that I don't have one single drop of Japanese blood in my body. But I've always felt half-Japanese at heart.

I'm a Western chauvinist. I'm all about the culture. Now, part of that is recognizing that white males seem to be the ones who made it and respecting that, but it doesn't mean you're not invited to the party.

I think that a lot of the stories I would see was kids who are first-generation immigrants, watching them try to rip themselves from their family and their faith and kind of erase. I hadn't really seen anything where someone's trying to reconcile the two.

Commanded by God dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible to remember their past, Jews historically obeyed not by recording events but by ritually re-enacting them: by understanding the present through the lens of the past.

I have no ancestral link to the mountains. But I really do feel close to mountain culture. Their ways of food, of thinking. The way they hang out with no recording devices and just sing songs with each other.

My family has existed in eastern Kentucky for as long as there are records. If you're familiar with the famous Hatfield-McCoy family feud back in the 1860s, '70s and '80s in the United States, my family was an integral part of that.

To learn the history of the banjo is to recover the actual history of America.

Recycling old buildings to show art is very important.