Quotes About Heritage

I've always tried to keep my family and how I was raised and my morals in the back of my head.

People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage.

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

The fact is, I'm half-British, half-Malaysian. For an Asian who's grown up in America to be commenting on how Asian I am when they've never left America... does that make them more or less Asian than me?

I always find that the more Jewish you are, the more people respect you.

I'm a Londoner more than anything else.

I'm very attached to my roots, but I feel Italian more than anything else.

More than anything, I'm proud to say I'm from Saginaw.

My family have shaped my politics more than anything else.

The love of the game and the way I play comes from my family, the Latin side more than anything.

My grandmother, Erminia 'Minnie' Morocco, treated cookies like a form of currency.

I was born in Morocco and lived there until I was 13; I'm really proud of my heritage.

My family is from Morocco, and I was born and raised in Canada, but I'm an Indian at heart, for sure.

My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.

Italy is a great country, one of the most beautiful in the world, but I've always gone my own way.

I'm from Raleigh, N.C. It's my home, the most beautiful place ever - but it has some racist history.

To get the hippie out of certain characters is probably the most difficult thing for me. I was not a hippie by choice but by birth.

Authenticity is the most important thing. You have to know where it all comes from, study who pioneered it.

I'm part Jewish and part Christian, but I'm mostly Jewish.

My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.

My father Baldev Pathak was a Punjabi, and mother, Dina Pathak, a Kathiawadi Gujarati.

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.

I've got very little grey hair. It's to do with the genes. My mother and father were the same.

My household runs the same way it was with my parents, who were a mother and father with their kids.