Quotes About Heritage

My mother was the fourth generation of women to have worked with the Walker company. As a little girl, I would go to her office while she worked. She was a very capable woman.

To my father, Notre Dame represented the underdogs of the world, the Italians, and the Polish people. I told him that one day I would play football for Notre Dame and worked hard to make that dream come true.

My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.

I'm definitely more Asian than a lot of people who have never been to Asia. But by blood and by race, they instantly say I deserve to be Asian. I've worked really hard to be Asian, and I think I'm Asian enough.

I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.

I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus came from what is commonly known as the working class.

I have certain values. I know where I come from. I am a hard worker. I'm conscious of my luck.

I am the son of a mine worker.

Ninety per cent of my family are hairdressers, and the other 10% are construction workers.

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

I was raised here in Logan County, where I was blessed to be in a family that had over 200 years of United Mine Workers of America experience.

Shipbuilding has been an important industry in Louisiana for generations, and the armed forces of the United States have long relied on the talents of Louisiana's shipyard workforce.

Working hard - that's South Sudan. We're tall, dark skinned, beautiful - I'm always proud of that.

There's a strong working-class work ethic in my family, which makes us strong.

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.

I come from a very working-class background.

I came from a real working-class show business family.

The piano has disappeared from working-class family life, which is a shame. It's associated with the middle classes now. Everyone in my family sang and played piano, but my parents were delighted and amazed when I became the first professional performer in the family - apart from a clog-dancer way back.

I have that working-class show-business blood coursing through my veins.

I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture.

I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.

I was brought up in a strong working-class community by working-class parents and relations until I was 18, and that's what I really am. Now all sorts of things have been added, but that's what I am.

My father was a black, working-class man who arrived here with no money in his pocket from Nigeria; my mum came from more of a middle-class background, whose father had prosecuted the Nazis at Nuremberg.