Quotes About Heritage

As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean drinking water for more than 30 million people but are also an integral part of Michigan's heritage and its economy.

I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.

Art in America should be American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement.

If my mom came to the sets, we would speak to her in Tulu, and no one would understand. That's an advantage when you know any South Indian language.

I was born just barely south of the Mason Dixon line.

Brunei Darussalam is one of the oldest kingdoms in South East Asia.

South Central is just who I am.

It's something to be proud of... I'm a proud New South Welshman.

Where I grew up in South East London you became a cab driver or worked in a flower market.

The south is very focused on family... the musical heritage of Muscle Shoals especially and the bands from the region.

I am first-generation American, so I didn't grow up in the South or have any relatives who were slaves. My forefathers were colonized.

It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do it some day.

I live in the South; there are Confederate flags everywhere.

Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?

Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically.

I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.

I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.

In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.

All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.

I feel no bond with South Africa, which is curious, since South Africa is where I was born.

I was born in South Africa and lived there until I was 19.

I have a lot of family in South Africa, but I grew up in California. I feel like my name keeps me connected to a long line of people that have been through a heck of a lot. It reminds me to stay grateful, and it reminds me to try and step my game up if I'm slacking.

My parents both played tennis in South Africa. I learned from them.