Quotes About Heritage

I wondered if anything would have turned out differently had a careless nurse switched the two of us in a hospital nursery, whether his family would be significantly changed, whether mine would have been, whether any of us Koreans, raised as we were, would sense the barest tinge of a loss or estrangement.

That perhaps the ways of his mother and his father had occupied whole regions of his heart. I know this.

I've got libraries in my blood.

Lots of kids in our neck of the woods call their grandfathers Papaw

I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.

My children were born into this. They will always be the grandchildren of the President and First Lady of the United States.

I am a Tambrahm born and brought up in Jamshedpur 20 years of my life, as my father worked for the Tatas there. My mother was a chief manager in the Bank of India and the only lady manager in Bihar in those times.

It's always good to be back in Salt Lake City.

Floral emblems have been often adopted. The houses of York and Lancaster had their roses, the Bourbons of France, the fleur-de-lis, Scotland her thistle, and Ireland her shamrock.

For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

My father was a farmer, and we have had some farming land in Haryana. Maybe I would have followed his footsteps and become a farmer.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

I feel very, very French, especially when I land in France.

Fishing has been part of our culture since we landed here.

I have introduced my daughter to the literary classics and landmark Bengali films. I want her to be well-versed in English but not at the cost of Bengali.

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

I'm part Latin, so everything in the Latin culture is - there's a lot of hyperbole, and there's a lot of melodrama.

I'm a member of the African diaspora: my parents left the Caribbean and came to London for a better life.

My grandfather, who is English, was a member of a gentleman's club called the Caledonian, which you can only be a member of if you have Scottish lineage.

I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.

My mother was a member of the Cape Coloured community. 'Coloured' is the South African word for the half-caste community that was a by-product of the early contact between black and white.

My family for several generations have been members of the Unitarian Church.

I'm not a historian who thinks Confederate memorials should be boarded up.