Quotes About Heritage

I'm a first-generation Japanese immigrant.

I don't really know what feeling Japanese or Haitian or American is supposed to feel like. I just feel like me.

It's an honour to be Japanese.

I grew up listening to Bob Marley, Jill Scott, Floetry, Nas, Jay-Z, Beyonce.

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

As proud as I am of being Polish-Canadian, sometimes I'm so jealous I wasn't born Italian.

I would like Madewell jeans to be the Levi's of its generation.

I know that my parents are with me. My mom's name was Renee Stause, and my dad's name was Jeff Stause.

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

I have always played into the belief that you are only ever borrowing the jersey; you never own the jersey because someone has gone before you and there is going to be someone after you, so it's a case of giving the jersey maximum respect.

I'm a girl from Jersey.

I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.

The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.

Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.

After all, I think Jerusalem is part of the, of the world's heritage.

My family has been rooted and intertwined with Jerusalem for generations, and I am among those who say every day, 'May You return to Your city, Jerusalem, with compassion.'

I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

Jewishness is a very big part of my identity. I am a proud Jew, I would say, who doesn't practice very actively.

You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.

As a Jew, support for Israel is in my DNA.

I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.

I'm a Jew. I think every Jew is dark in certain ways.