Quotes About Heritage

I do not come out of a literary tradition.

All experiment is made on a basis of tradition; all tradition is the crystallization of experiment.

I haven't been hunting for years. It is just a tradition I grew up with.

One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

There is a tradition in Southern cooking of recipes handed down for generations. And when I make my grandmother's strawberry pie - she is gone on now - I feel her right with me.

My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children.

There's something very fine and lucid and rich in this tradition of the English actor.

I feel like I'm a torchbearer for jazz, fostering its tradition but its future, too.

Denied dancing and musical instruments, slaves expressed a hidden tradition of musicality and poetics by tongue and signal.

I have an Indian father, and when you grow up in a house with an Indian father, culturally, that's what becomes dominant in the house. So that's the tradition we grew up with.

Long Island has a great boxing tradition.

Christianity in the Middle East is shattered. The ancient faith tradition lies beaten, broken, and dying.

I am very aware that I'm the product of growing up in England and the tradition of designing and making, of England industrialising first.

Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.

Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular family - Jewish or Islamic or Christian or Mexican - and your family determines to some extent what you are expected to become. And society is always there attempting to determine the role we will play within it.

I connect to the tradition of Irish storytelling. And I think there is something - I can't put my finger on it - something genetic there. Maybe just a need to tell stories.

I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers.

There is no Baltic identity with a common culture, language group, religious tradition.

I'm conscious of the fact that I'm sort of a bridging figure. I have my Chinese literary heritage and cultural background, so I'm comfortable with these things, but at the same time, I have to navigate the Anglo-American tradition, which has a self-centred view of what Asia and what being Chinese means.

While I'm Jewish, the Hasidic world is still foreign to me. But I do understand some of the ideas of tradition and family and faith of our shared culture.

It's good to be progressive, but don't shun the good things about tradition.

I am of tradition, but that doesn't mean I have an old outlook on life.

I feel proud to be a part of rock n' roll and the whole tradition of rock n' roll.

Tradition in fashion is held with such a high regard.