Quotes About Heritage

Food in general is really important for any diaspora, and it's really important for Korean people. This was a connection my mom and I could always have together that made her feel like I was more hers.

My mom grew up without a father because he died in the Korean War. And my grandmother, her life was completely upended because of that.

We can't afford to lose all that we've built from the ashes of the Korean War.

We grew up in rural Arkansas without any Koreans close by, and when I go to Korea feel out of place.

I wish there were more kung fu films. They are a part of our culture.

I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.

I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.

Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, Italy, made about 1,200 violins, half of which still survive. After his death in 1737, factories churned out hundreds of thousands of copies. And every day, people bring violins with Stradivarius labels to appraisers, thinking they have bought the genuine article for a song.

Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—" "So has the plague.

Tradition, indeed, but the present is built on the past.

daughter of the Earl of Strathmore and Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck, your mother

behind every Guide Michelin chef there was a woman, usually a four foot cataract-ridden old granny from whom he'd filched his best recipes.

S? îmbr??i?ezi tr?s?turile definitorii ale regiunii în care te-ai n?scut este o form? de apartenen?? la o familie extins?, dar f?r? obliga?iile uzuale. Este un mod de a apar?ine unui grup, f?r? s? se a?tepte de la tine s? faci vizite de Cr?ciun.

cabernet sauvignon is the offspring of sauvignon blanc (which, one day, thought to be in the mid-1700s, had a nice moment in nature with cabernet franc, resulting in cabernet sauvignon).

I love books, they're in my blood.

What's your heritage, anyway?" I said irritably, backing away, putting more space between us. He regarded me blankly, looking startled by the personal question, and as if he lacked a frame of reference for one.

You'd do a Highland husband proud, lass," he whispered.

In the Deep South, we understand pride. We lost everything once, but by God, we held on to our pride. We heaped fuel onto the fire of it, stoked it as high as a crematorium. And we immolate ourselves on it sometimes.

knowledge of times gone by

Och, and there's your Scots blood, lass," he said with a faint smile. "A fine bit o' temper too.

My father has the "settler's scar," a pink star scored into the brown leather of his palm by the handle of the moldboard plow.

They used our black pupils to polish up their antique triumphs.

People talk about heredity as if it's linear and vertical. Dead people pass things "down" to the young.

Gar taldin ni jaonyc; gar sa buir, ori'wadaasla. (Nobody cares who your father was, only the father you'll be.) - Mandalorian saying