Quotes About Heritage

My dad's an English teacher and my mum's a midwife. Then my mum's side of the family are all crazy creative.

I've got German, Cornish and Scottish ancestry. It might help explain my affinity for forests, the sea, and fatty foods.

No matter where you live in the world, the contribution that Chinese migration has had on food culture is undeniable.

The DNA of AC Milan is something I have inside me.

We're the roughest people in the way we play and live, and that is because Americans come from people who all got up one morning and went 5,000 miles, and that was a time in the 19th century when it wasn't so easy to do.

In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.

My mother is from Compton, California, but my father is from Hayneville, Alabama, and that's less than 20 miles from Selma.

Obviously I'm not from 50's background - I'm from Westport, Connecticut, which is as far away from his background as you can get, right? Growing up in Westport, for a long time I was the only black person living there for miles.

Our collective military service is a special part of our family's story in America.

In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.

God, I just love 'A Journey to the End of the Millennium,' by A. B. Yehoshua. My favorite novel by an American Jew is probably 'Humboldt's Gift.'

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

I'll always say this: my name is Patrick Mills, I'm a Kokatha man from South Australia, and I'm a Naghiralgal and Dauareb-Meriam man of the Torres Strait Islands.

Being from Milwaukee is a badge of honor.

My dad was a coal miner in County Durham.

Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.

My father and brothers were coal miners.

I come from a family of coal miners.

'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away.

Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining.

My father, Dines Pontoppidan, belonged to an old family of clergymen and was himself a minister.

I come from a lineage of ministers.

I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.

I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.