Quotes About Heritage

Everybody in Georgia is musical, but I was slightly obsessed.

My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.

Live free or die is not just a slogan on a license plate. It is the very essence of who we are.

I'm not messing with skiing. You can't get this Puerto Rican on the slope. Uh-uh.

Slow down and think about the lessons of the elders.

My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of beef. My grandmother, Meg, was a fine Scottish cook who did slow cooking.

My husband, Vivek Deora - he is very meticulous about cooking, and slowly and lovingly makes his family recipes, handed down generations.

Our country is an agriculture-based country. And slowly, we are forgetting our roots.

I have learned so much from India: for instance, the use of aloe vera, which I use, and I find it sad when I see certain arts of oiling slowly fading away.

I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.

Classical dance forms and music are slowly going away. It is very important to impart these to children.

My grandfather was Scottish, born in the slums of Glasgow.

I was born in Nagpur and brought up in Ahmedabad, where my father had a small factory.

One of the small joys that's easy to miss in London is the blue plaques on buildings. These are put up to commemorate the famous on the houses they lived in.

The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.

I grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts, and it goes without saying that there weren't many Nigerian families in that town, and a lot of people couldn't say Uzoamaka.

I'm actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago.

I'm from Oklahoma, and Nick's from a small town in Illinois.

I grew up on a plantation in Alabama in a small town outside of Montgomery.

So my mom's folks are from one side of Greensboro - and, you know, outside of Greensboro. And my dad's folks, the white side, is from another very small town outside of Greensboro. So both sides are coming from the country.

I grew up in a small town in Iowa, town of about 500 people.

I grew up in a small town, like most Canadians.

I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I'm African American but that doesn't include the other half of me.

When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'