Quotes About Heritage

My childhood was very, very, very, very traditional.

I don't have a traditional design background, but it's inherent to me. My father was in the fabric industry, and even my grandfather and my great-grandfather were lace manufacturers.

People have their cultural reasons for eating meat, their traditional reasons, their likes and dislikes.

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

I would not call my family 'traditional Chinese.' We were more what I would term the Colonial Chinese.

During the Cultural Revolution, the communists came in, and what they wanted to do was eradicate all sense of traditional Chinese culture.

We need a nation where traditional family values will get a national platform.

I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been passed down and passed down, and hopefully you take that, and then you take it, you know, the next distance, and then somebody else takes it the next distance.

When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play.

Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.

We are under attack. Our culture, society, traditions, and way of life are at risk.

That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

We are part of an inspiringly colorful mosaic of cultures and traditions. I will nurture this pluralism.

Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.

I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

Christmas traditions are important in my family. Being half English and half Polish-Lithuanian, we have two separate celebrations.

Growing up, I was brought up around Irish music, Irish traditions.

My mom, who left Iran in 1976, steeped us in the smells, tastes, and traditions of Persian cuisine.

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

I never felt that I belonged. When I was at school... First I went to a Jewish school, when I was very little. But when I was 12, they put me in a school with a lot of traditions, and they were educated people and they were talking about Greece and the Parthenon and I don't know what.

Sadly, a lot of our traditions are fading away and theatre can be a great tool to ensure that it doesn't happen.

The food we eat is our identity. The youth of the nation must save our food culture and traditions. If not, it will affect future generations.

I'm so proud to be a Latina. Growing up and being Latina and growing up with my father and getting to do a lot of the Hispanic traditions, I loved it.

When you look at traditions closely, examine what they really are, you realize they're made up of layers and layers of deferrals, delays, indecisions, tomorrows and long lunches.