Quotes About Heritage

The South is where wrestling was birthed.

I'm a second-generation professional wrestler. My family, the Rhodes family, has been wrestling for 50-odd years.

I'm from a wrestling family, a wrestling dynasty. And as biased as that may be, I firmly believe I am from the greatest wrestling family of all time.

When you talk about Mexican culture, it's wrestling and soccer.

I was torn between the Americanness my mom wanted for me and the Mexicanness my father wanted - they were wrestling for cultural influence over me.

Wrestling is in my blood.

One of the fun things about wrestling is that you can do a move and leave your stamp on the business forever.

Wrestling has its own culture. Every culture - Japan, Samoan, Indian, Korean - has wrestling, and wrestling is a worldwide mix.

I had wrestling in my blood.

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.

The thing about India is that even if the economic backgrounds are different, the cultural background is the same. Somebody who is working as a tailor will also tie a black thread around his kid's wrist; so will somebody in Bollywood. That's the fun of being Indian.

Every person has a legacy. You may not know what your impact is, and it may not be something that you can write on your tombstone, but every person has an impact on this world.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'

I was born in Bangalore but grew up in Kolkata and I read, write and speak Bengali.

I was born in Delhi but grew up in Chandigarh, so I write about the machismo of Punjab because it was around me.

My mother is half Malayali and half Tamilian. I can speak Bengali and Tamil, but can't read or write.

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.

All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan.

I am the daughter of Black writers who are descended from Freedom Fighters who broke their chains and changed the world. They call me.

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

I come from a family of writers. My mom had been a writer, nonfiction books, and her mother was a playwright in the 1930s and '40s. And my twin brother, Alexi, is a writer on 'The Following.'

I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.

Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard to deny that, for whatever reasons, a lot of SF writers come from Anglo or European backgrounds.