Quotes About Heritage

Mapu-ché, «gente de la tierra», así se llaman ellos mismos

I could never have invented such a clan. Actually, I had no need to, with a family like mine you don't need imagination.

Isla de Pascua

Nunca hay que vender la tierra. Es lo único que queda cuando todo lo demás se acaba.

La casa de mis abuelos, en el barrio Providencia De Santiago, que entonces era residencial y hoy es un laberinto de comercios y oficinas, era grande y fea, una monstruosidad de cemento, habitaciones de techos altos, corrientes de aire, hollín de estufas de queroseno en las paredes, pesados cortinajes de felpa roja, muebles españoles hechos para durar un siglo, retratos horrendos de parientes muestras y pilas de libros polvorientos. El frente de la casa era señorial.

costumbre chilena de convivir en clan para siempre.

we turn our backs on Latin America, always comparing ourselves instead to Europe.

I fell in love with my country because of the stories my grandfather told me and because of our travels together through the south. He taught me history and geography, showed me maps, made me read Chilean writers, corrected my grammar and handwriting. As a teacher, he was short on patience but long on severity; my errors made him red with anger, but if he was content with my work he would reward me with a wedge of Camembert cheese

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

His grandfather, he said, was from a traveling family—part of a group called the "Gringos"—signifying, here, not unwanted Americans but Greek-speaking Gypsies in Spain.

Everybody recommends New Zealand. I really want to learn this haka, the traditional dance - I love it; it's so cool.

I was born in New Zealand, and I was raised in Australia, and I'm very proud of that.

I'm always going to be a New Zealand fighter. I'm a Kiwi, of course, and I've still got my New Zealand passport.

Although I didn't spend much time in New Zealand at all, I feel really privileged to have that Maori blood and link to my past. I got my tattoo out of respect to that.

We've had a debate about immigration in New Zealand for some time. Now what we're trying to champion in that conversation is a recognition that New Zealand has been built off immigration. I myself am a third-generation New Zealander.

We grow up in New Zealand from a young age getting up at 3am to watch the All Blacks play South Africa or England, it's part of who we are. So to be an All Black now is amazing.

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio.

Growing up with a dad who was a classic-rock guy, I felt out of place with what was happening in pop culture. The Beatles, Zeppelin, T. Rex - that, for me, was the music that could never leave our vocabulary.

My oldest sister was into Diana Ross and the Supremes, and my brother was into Led Zeppelin, and I listened to all of that, and then I'd be going to the Opry with my dad. So I was exposed to a lot of music. But the older I got, the more I started leaning toward the Opry.

Zimbabwe was still a relatively young country when I was living there and its post-apartheid society was only newly formed. Being a mixed-race child in that environment means that you have to think about crafting your own identity and you question why you belong in that world.

I grew up on the coast of England in the '70s. My dad is white from Cornwall, and my mom is black from Zimbabwe. Even the idea of us as a family was challenging to most people.

Being a white southern African who saw the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, the sense of being an outsider was absolutely instilled in my limbic system.

My dad's from Zimbabwe, and my mom is Danish, Irish, and Norwegian, so I have influences from a lot of different places.