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Quotes About Heritage

'Chitthi' is a song from my roots.
~ Jubin Nautiyal
My roots are in theater.
~ Emma Corrin
One should live with history round one.
~ Krzysztof Penderecki
My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.
~ Kangana Ranaut
But I'm not the first person in the Royal Family to bring out a book.
~ Princess Michael of Kent
The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.
~ Octavia Spencer
My family's a ruling family.
~ Aminatta Forna
There's a rumor that my great-grandmother was 6'7''. I don't know if it's necessarily true, but that's a big woman.
~ Mohamed Bamba
I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.
~ Doc Rivers
We've been here so long. The history and richness runs so deep within the community. We own this. It's personal. It's very personal.
~ Linda Johnson Rice
My real last name is Flores, and Milian is actually my mom's maiden name. So it's not made up, which is cool; it runs in the family. And it actually worked out better for my career to have the last name Milian, because Flores kept me in a little box, and no one really associated me with the last name Flores.
~ Christina Milian
I grew up in Russia. I grew up in Latvia, to be exact.
~ Lana
I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian.
~ Maria Sharapova
I definitely feel Russian. I feel Russian, but at the same time when I'm in the States I feel at home, too.
~ Dasha Zhukova
I have a Russian heart.
~ Maria Sharapova
Latinos are learning English. That doesn't mean that they should sacrifice their original language or that they should give up this in-betweeness that is Spanglish.
~ Ilan Stavans
I don't speak Punjabi. My dad runs a beauty salon and is an Elvis fan.
~ Sacha Dhawan
Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs.
~ Chaka Khan
I had aunts who played piano and sang and also were entertainers, so music was very much a part of my life.
~ Dianne Reeves
History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.
~ Jill Lepore
It's the people and their stories that make Australia great. The scenery isn't bad either.
~ John Bishop
Egyptians are quite incredible people. They have everything: the culture, the music, the scenes. So much of Arab music and art started there.
~ Yasmine Hamdan
There is no better feeling for a Manc kid than scoring for United.
~ Danny Welbeck
Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
~ Gail Porter