Quotes About Heritage

Growing up in my mother's Pueblo household, I never imagined a world in which I would be represented by someone who looked like me.

I didn't know anyone in my family who acted; no one in my immediate family did any acting.

In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon.

The combination of a brand like Cartier and the immense heritage that India holds can go places.

It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.

I was 7 years old when 'Roots' was first broadcast, and my parents gathered all us kids around the TV to learn about how we got here. But it wasn't until I sat down and immersed myself in the research that I got the barest inkling of what it meant to be a slave.

My dad is a Ghanaian immigrant, and he wanted a son who was an engineer.

American literature has always been immigrant.

I became more interested in the idea of being an immigrant and particularly of being in a country you're not familiar with. And so I began reading migrants' stories. The fact that my father is Chinese - he emigrated from Malaysia when he was about 20 - may have had some bearing on my attraction to the subject.

We just need more complex, important roles that tell our experiences as an immigrant; as someone with an accent, but also American; but also someone who's second or third-generation American, born and raised here who actually don't speak any language other than English.

It is important to have safe borders, but at the same time, we can't forget what brought us here. This is an immigrant nation.

I feel like I have so many amazing opportunities because of my immigrant mother, my immigrant grandparents.

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.

I'm an immigrant and I will stay an immigrant forever.

I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

I feel I have a responsibility to carry out the immigrant story, since it's one that I hold very dear to my heart, since my story is similar in a lot of ways.

I can understand the value of the immigrant experience and that we have become the nation that we are because people like my grandmother were able to make a life in this country.

What any immigrant is after is a taste of home.

Our old stories happen to be your new stories. The stories that you're seeing as immigrant stories are your grandparents' stories, are your great-grandparents' stories. You just happen to be separated from them a little bit.

I was born to Chinese immigrant parents, who came from Taiyuan.

My mother is basically an immigrant because she came from Tonga.

For many immigrant groups, lack of trust in authority is something they actually bring from the countries they come from.

We are a nation of immigrants - all of us.

My parents were immigrants.