Quotes About Heritage

My father is from Brooklyn, but we spoke Dutch at home.

My grandparents were born in England but spoke German and had a German name.

Being a third-generation Mexican-American and speaking English exclusively, I heard Spanish spoken by my relatives all my life, especially when they didn't want me to understand what they were talking about.

My mum is Brazilian and very proud. I'd love to do a Brazilian film. I've been brought up in the Brazilian culture. My mum brought me up on my own, I cook Brazilian food, I've never spoken a word of English to my mother.

Long before genetics became a flourishing field, Christians have spoken about sin as an inherited condition.

European operetta and German singspiel provided the American musical its combination of spoken dialogue and song; the inclusion of dance traced a lineage to French baroque opera. But what a difference!

Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.

Every marriage is a battle between two families struggling to reproduce themselves.

Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.

I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.

Given that we are all descended from Adam and Eve, genetic defects as a result of intra-family marriage would not begin to crop up until after the first few dozen generations.

Something old something new Something borrowed something blue.

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.

I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.

Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.