Quotes About Heritage

Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.

I may be brown on the outside, but on the inside, I'm all American.

Not everybody knows I'm Bruce Lee's daughter.

I was raised in Brussels as a Belgian but, at the same time, feeling that I wasn't necessarily from here.

My mother was a Tibetan Buddhist.

My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo.

I want to build a legacy.

Medieval and Tudor people didn't treat buildings as a semi-disposable resource like we do.

This country is not built on one culture alone. We all make up this industry.

At the end of the day, I am a Marwari. So I will always think of business like a Marwari!

I'm not sure I really am an entrepreneur. I'm not much of a businessman. I know I'm not a marketing guy. I do have an entrepreneurial lineage, though.

Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls.

If you look at the heritage of the cable business, if you can own a niche, you have a good chance of succeeding.

My success is that I have these two great cultures behind me. One is Italian. I've continued to nurture that. But I also feel very American.

The heritage of Arsenal, to believe in our academy and to really promote our academy. That's important and that's why I am here as well. I wouldn't waste my time just to know that we are not having successes here at Arsenal.

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.

From Calcutta has gone forth a living stream of knowledge in many branches of study. It is inspiring to think of the long succession of scholars, both Indian and European, who have lived in this city, made it their own, and given it of their best.

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.

The Philippine races, like all the Malays, do not succumb before the foreigner, like the Australians, the Polynesians and the Indians of the New World.

Being black has been put in such a negative light. For such a long time, being black has been criminalized, but being black is something that I should be proud of because we have so many black people who have accomplished so many amazing things in the world.

I was born into an Irish Catholic family in the New York area in this great, wonderful, and safe country, but the Holocaust has always haunted me, and it has long stood as a stumbling block to faith. How could such a thing be? How is that consistent with the concept of a loving God?

My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.

My dad is actually from Ghana in West Africa, and I was actually born in Ghana, too, and came to the United States when I was two years old. It's always football over there, soccer, but becoming a Massachusetts native, you can't help but get sucked into all the sports.