Quotes About Heritage

We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose this battle.

The notes one of my uncles (who had the same kind of curiosity in collecting family anecdotes) once put into my hands, furnished me with several particulars relating to our ancestors.

I love cooking. My Italian mother is a genius cook, and I picked that up from her. I make my own sauce, which takes four hours, from a recipe that's been refined over many years. I won't tell anybody what it is.

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month provides us all an opportunity to reflect upon this community's many contributions and to celebrate its bright future.

Confederate monuments belong in museums where we can study and reflect on that terrible history, not in places of honor across our state.

Food is a reflection of who you are as a person.

Culture is a reflection of values.

I'm a reflection of my mom, my brothers and everyone in my family. How I carry myself is a reflection of how they raised me. I've learned that.

I went through a soul-searching period. I went to a place that was a little bit more reflective and dark. I began to look at who I am, who I was, where I come from, what my culture is, and who I am as an African-American person in America.

Antiques Roadshow' is a public service. It reflects the nation back to itself, as does 'Question Time.'

Forgetting the importance of national landscapes, cultures, national behaviours, reactions, and reflexes is a big, big mistake.

All Italians got a refrigerator in the garage. That's what we do.

My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England during the war. They returned to Belgium in 1920, and I grew up in the cosmopolitan harbour city of Antwerp, at a time when education in the Flemish part of the country was still half French and half Flemish.

My mom is a Sikh immigrant born in a refugee camp. My Irish-Swedish-Norwegian-Danish-English-American dad grew up Baptist.

My grandmother - my mother's mother - was a German Jewish refugee, an only child who came here from Berlin in 1936 at the age of 17.

I think a lot of Americans forget that they are not originally from here, that somebody in their past was a refugee.

My father was from East Bengal. Having lost everything to the Partition, he came as a refugee.

As a post-Holocaust kid, growing up in a neighborhood with a lot of Jewish refugees, I had got the idea there were no Jews left in Europe. But I found in my European wanderings that many of them had gone back and rebuilt their lives.

I was the child of refugees.

Yeah, we were refugees coming to the U.K. and I definitely now view myself as a Rwandan Scotsman.

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.

As someone from, and directly involved with, this part of the world, I am convinced Arabs are qualified to regain their glorious past.

I wanted Puma to regain strength with the existing logo rather than try to get rid of the past.

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history.