Quotes About Heritage

I'm from a small town on the bottom edge of Mississippi, very near New Orleans and the Louisiana border. My family has lived there for generations.

My father, Arthur, was a fishmonger, first at Billingsgate market and later in Camden Town and Golders Green.

I'm from a small town called Alesund in Norway.

My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.

There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada.

Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a country, region or town.

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

Small towns are so rich.

My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.

We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions.

Even though I have lived in the States since I was 18, in my head I am still very British, and I do have this romance for towns in Middle America that nobody gets to see.

The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.

Los Cabos has been an amalgam of many cultures that have been coming here. There have been beautiful Jesuit missions for example, in many places around this area. The towns are incredible. But there is a very strong Mexicanized culture here that exists because people from different parts of Mexico have come to live here.

I'm really into ghost towns. I've driven cross-country the past few summers, and I would stop at some ghost towns along the way. They're like a microcosm of America as a whole.

I grew up in the Dallas Metroplex. But I spent a lot of time in Waco and then in small towns down there with my grandma and then in Killeen and in Riesel.

Oswestry's a bit in the middle of nowhere - quite tough, and quite English, in the way border towns are.

I am at the top of Toyota and drive cars myself. I was also born with this name.

I'm half-Japanese, so I collect toys, like a Yayoi Kusama stuffed pumpkin.

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.

I'm also a blues musician, and all blues artists can trace their pain to the slavery fields of the Mississippi Delta.

I find my husband's family history fascinating, as they can trace the family lineage back to ancestors who fought, and died, in the first battle of the Revolution, as well as to many other interesting people.

On the Italian side, we can trace the family back 2,000 years. I have a cousin in Rome, a famous archaeologist, Count Andrea Carandini, who was in Lombardy and came across some pottery with the original name of the family, Carandinus, painted on it.

People like to trace their ancestry.