Quotes About Heritage

I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.

Growing up in a traditional environment, I was taught the importance of art, how it's connected to the soul, how it makes a human being. This made me understand and cherish American art forms.

It is important to know where you come from.

I'm black, and it's a very important part of what I am. I'm not embarrassed about it.

I keep my Scottish connection. I know where I was born, and that's an important part of my history, and I think all immigrants are the same. But if I could live anywhere in the world, it would be Australia.

Food was always such an important part of my family life when I was growing up.

Religion is an important part of life and culture in Brazil, very important to us as Brazilians.

It's an important thing to remember where you came from.

I am a proud Indian, it's the land of celebration with all the festivals, vibrance and, most importantly, emotions. That is what I took to Miss World!

You can't impose a legacy.

Even my great grand-mother did impressions.

Be proud of your heritage, and don't be discouraged from the improbable.

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

Criminalizing behavior, if it's part of the heritage of this state, is in my opinion a bad idea.

In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to deal with things I knew about and where I came from.

In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.

I'm Korean-American. Not Colombian. My parents are first-generation, and I'm like... in-between, because I moved over here when I was four or five.

People seem ready for a more in-depth idea of folk music, culture and history.

MP is like my second home. It's a culturally inclined state.

I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe.

If I can generate enough income, I'd like to get a castle, a historic castle that I can restore.

I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.