Quotes About Heritage

There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.

No matter where I've been or where I go, a piece of Missouri is always with me because this is where I'm from and where I grew up.

Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.

When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are.

For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing.

I've always wanted to do a period piece.

I adore the classical pieces of our culture. The Greek and Roman are still inside and everywhere; it's impossible to disconnect.

It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.

Hair pieces and head dresses have always been something that's been part of my culture.

I really love period pieces.

I know we don't all follow in the family footsteps, but you are, I suppose, more likely to consider becoming a butcher if you have spent your childhood watching a parent debone a pig.

To be accused of ignoring my roots is pig ignorant.

No golfer's journey is complete without a pilgrimage to St. Andrews, the mecca of the game. This is where it all began, back in the 15th and 16th centuries.

I don't care about being a pioneer. People act like it would be cool to be a pioneer. I'm okay to be looked at as that, but it's just that we don't get transmitted our cultural heritage as women artists.

I think coming from the Northwest is something that's born in your blood. On my mom's side, I'm, like, a sixth-generation Oregonian. My family came over in the covered wagons, 'Oregon Trail'-video-game style. Maybe the pioneer mentality runs in my blood because they were all pioneers.

My parents are deeply pious Hindus.

There's something about the pipes that just connects with Scots, they go mental for it - it's in our DNA somehow.

Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrian's Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.

Our African American kids need to know what Black Wall Street was all about.

I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book of Mormon.

I was born and spent my first five years in Chester, an ancient city that retains some of its Roman walls and fortifications and contains a great medieval cathedral, as well as Tudor, Stuart and early 19th century architecture. Visiting these things was free, and my parents - who had little money - made the most of this.

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.