Quotes About Heritage

I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.

But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.

I grew up in neighbouring Hawaii, where Tahiti is regarded as a brother.

If you're a black person in America, it's really hard to avoid being black. And what I mean is that the reality of your cultural history, regardless of whether or not you talk about it, it's there.

I'm certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody - regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you're from and to know what your roots are.

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

Regardless of what I've ever done or will ever do, I'll always be black.

Mixed-race blacks have an ethical obligation to identify as black - and interracial couples share a similar moral imperative to inculcate certain ideas of black heritage and racial identity in their mixed-race children, regardless of how they look.

My parents are from Jamaica, and I love reggae music.

Look, the Jamaican dancehall stuff, the reggae influences and the ska influence, are always going to be part of our DNA.

My dad came from Trinidad to Jamaica when he was 19. He had to go to Jamaica to join the British regiment, where it was based. After Sandhurst, he returned to the Caribbean as a junior lieutenant, based in Jamaica. He met my mum and became a Jamaican citizen.

I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.

The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.

I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.

Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie - father of the future Alex Dumas - was born on February 26, 1714, in the Norman province of Caux, a region of rolling dairy farms that hung above great chalk cliffs on the northwest coast of France.

Translating one region's works for another region has a beauty with an inborn connect. We might speak different languages but our culture and history is one.

I grew up in Teesside and it is really important to keep your regional accent because it is a big part of who you are.

Italian food really reflects the people. It reflects like a prism that fragments into regions.

Regularly, customers asked for a book on Greenwich, and there was none. After all, Elizabeth I was born there. The Observatory is known all over the world; the Royal Naval College is there. So I decided to do it.

I respect and understand that golf is enveloped in tradition and that certain rules and regulations must be upheld.

We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.