Quotes About Heritage

I am the son and grandson of Navy admirals, and I was born into America's service. It wasn't until I was deprived of her company that I fell in love with America.

I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad was a country singer-songwriter, so it's in my blood, and I love it.

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization.

I lost the accent years ago, but I'm still very proud to be Scottish, and I love wearing a kilt.

England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!

I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.

I love to live things, so I wanted to immerse myself and get into the mindset - and sandals - of my forefathers.

I've been playing baseball since I was four. I've got baseball in my blood. I love baseball.

While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there are things I love about the South.

I love Italy and I say I am from Italy wherever I go.

I love Topsail Island, which my grandparents helped settle in 1950, despite the racial tensions. I wanted to immortalize my deep connection to this special island forever.

I love Ireland. I'll always be 100pc Irish. I get really excited when I go to Sligo; it's my home.

I fell in love with the land and with the very old fashioned idea of leaving a physical legacy for my children. A stunning place, with a magnificent forest of trees, and a magnificent river.

I love the U.K. It's so different over there from America, you know, the culture and stuff. It's pretty awesome.

The best way to be beautiful is to choose your parents well.

When a new Duchess is brought to Tankerton, the oldest elm in the park must be felled.

I am Duke of Strathsporran and Cairngorm, Marquis of Sorby, and Earl Cairngorm, in the Peerage of Scotland.

But isn't the human factor what connects us so deeply to our past?

and, let us not forget, the culmination of nearly five thousand years of continuous Chinese history.

I happened to be born into a group of people who live in constant fear of extinction. It's part of our identity, part of our mind-set, and it has taught us through horrific trial and error to always be on our guard.

Every man has two counties--his own and America.

Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one's youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. PSALM 127:3–5

In America my mother has eyes as strong as boulders, never once skittering off a face, but she has not learned to place decorations and phonograph needles, nor has she stopped seeing land on the other side of the oceans. Now her eyes include the relatives in China, as they once included my father smiling and smiling in his many western outfits, a different one for each photograph that he sent from America. (1983: 59)