Quotes About Heritage

I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.

I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan. In fact, my mother's been married twice, and both men were Uruguayan. So I grew up in a very European/Latin American-influenced home.

All my family look Irish. They act Irish. My sister even has red hair... it's crazy. I'm the one that doesn't seem Irish. None of the kids in my family, my siblings, speak with an Irish accent... we've never lived there full-time; we weren't born there. We just go there once or twice a year. It's weird. Our parents sound Irish, but we don't.

An animal has to suffer for us old-school Latinos to get what we want.

Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff?

You have this special place - America, you want it to remain special, you better find out why it became special.

My kids are Irish; I want them to grow up playing Gaelic football and learning Irish.

What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.

Provenance is something very important in jewelry. You want to know who has worn a piece of jewelry and who it has belonged to - it's part of its history, part of its aura.

The country has already become multicultural. Given immigration trends, it will only grow more diverse, and these new Americans want to share in their country's identity.

I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I'm whispering it, because I'm a quarter Jewish and afraid it's all going to be taken away.

Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.

I know that [Sunday is the day you spend with your family] is a tradition that I want to keep alive and I also want to share.

Only some ghastly dehumanised moron would want to get rid of the Routemaster.

Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!

Every generation in America has faced the same question, do we we want America to be special? Or do we just want America to be another country? The time has come again.

I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.

I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture.

There are things in our blood that are just naturally passed down to us, whether we want to recognize them or not.

I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business.

I really believe in the last name Hoffa being something powerful. You want to live your life to bring honor to that name.

We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war

Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.