Quotes About Heritage

My father's family, I think, were mostly from Lancashire, but I don't know how far back we go. I think it's quite a few generations.

Leaving a legacy behind is huge.

The BBC is a huge part of the nation's cultural life.

Where you come from is such a huge part of who you are today.

I've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am.

If I look at my make-up, Canada is a huge part of what I am.

My heritage is a huge part of everything I do; it is, after all, part of what has made me who I am.

My cultural identity is obviously a huge part of my design aesthetic.

I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past.

It doesn't get any better than coming to a club like this, with so much history, like Arsenal. I'm hugely proud.

England's full of cricket tradition. I follow the game there hugely.

I'm very proud to be from Hull.

I'm an old soul. The blues, especially older blues, is the human element that kind of gives the music soul, and I think that maybe not enough people connect to the blues. It's a very powerful place to be; and if you can express that to an audience, I think that you can express a lot through that.

Culture is a part of basic human nature, of deep humanity.

I believe that everyone collects. I think collecting is in our blood as humans.

I don't like it if I act anything other than the humble Winnipegger I was raised to be.

Culturally, you know, I come from a Samoan background where the food is very humble, it's very simple.

It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.

Both my mother's family and my father's family go back almost a hundred years in the district. I was born in the district, raised in the district, raised my family in the district. And so that's the way I see myself.

My parents are Hungarian.

The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.

When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuania. When I left, it was Hungary. It is difficult to say where I come from.

If you own a bar on your own, you're a player; if you own it with your beloved twin sister, you're—" "Irish." "Go on.

Her family had long had a sense of history and understood that what was not written down might almost not have existed. The Stephens and Pattles...understood the value of old pieces of paper covered in handwriting.