Quotes About Heritage

My parents are Dominican. I would always go to the Dominican Republic, and I fell in love with Bachata, which comes from the Dominican Republic.

For my first three books the setting (or place if you will) has always been a given - N.J. and the Dominican Republic and some N.Y.C. - so from one perspective you could say that the place in my work always comes first.

The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying for a long time. But if we did the DNA of everyone in Mexico a whole lot of people would have a whole lot of black in them.

That was a pretty fine Army that we had in 1965. By 1973, it was in tatters. It was a disgrace to the country and to itself, to its own heritage, really. So it's, you know, the Army belongs to all 307 million of us. It is our common possession, it's our common heritage. As goes the Army, so goes the republic.

My mother comes from the Dominican Republic, so I have the Latin side in me, and I grew up with Gypsies. But I like any kind of music as long as it's good music.

I was so hungry to learn my history, to really know who I was.

I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don't hunt. We're not gun folk.

How is it macho that I like to hunt and fish? I've been doing it since I was four.

I believe my last name Hunt is an anglicized version of O'Fianna.

I come from a family that hunted. I know how to hunt, but I don't do it.

I am a born hunter, like my father, my grandfather, and every man of my family before them.

Dad was a hunter and had guns in the house all the time.

We have a long heritage as a company of serving responsible hunters and sportsmen and women, and we're going to continue doing so.

I grew up hunting and fishing, as did my family. But then I served in the military.

Our state ceremonies have a religious foundation. We have compulsory religious education. And the Church should be a moral guardian. We have in this country a long Christian heritage and Christian culture and we shouldn't be in too much of a hurry to give that up.

I would love to one day see the rock churches in Ethiopia and learn about the history of Rastafari in the country, as well as see the amazing landscapes of Iceland.

Coca-Cola is an American icon.

The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.

Skynyrd's not just a band; I think it's a lifestyle. It's iconic.

'Mulan' is an iconic story for the Asian American community.

This is America; our icons are complicated.

Cheese steaks are the gastronomic icons of this ethnic city.

I was born and raised in Pocatello, Idaho.

My dad has blond hair, my grandmother has blue eyes. My daughter has blue eyes and blond hair. So it is pretty funny to me that I'm so heavily identified as an Asian person.