Quotes About Heritage

I didn't particularly change my name to Fonda because I knew who Fondas were. It's still going to remain a mystery. I keep it as a mystery. So, maybe one day I'll tell the story of how I changed my last name.

My grandmother. She's someone I never met, and I would've loved to have met her. She's been a huge influence on our entire family, not just me. She is a mystery. It's not clear exactly what about her is truth and myth.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

I would say that Juventus is a myth not only in Italy, because it's the most loved team in Italy, but also around the world. And it has been in my family since birth.

I'm Irish in the mythic, romantic sense, but in the living sense, I'm a Londoner.

Mythology is part of our heritage, part of our identity at times because anywhere in India you will find the name of Rama or Krishna in one or the other form.

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

The name Zahra was to have been lman's own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

Arthur is my middle name; George is my dad's middle name.

My father's family can be traced back to 1400. I've been told by gypsies that there is unmistakeably gypsy blood in me. Lee is a gypsy name, you know.

Now, you may not have known this from my name, Lopez-Cantera, but I'm Jewish.

My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come.

My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.

My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad Galifianakis.

I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.

All my sons are named George Foreman. They all know where they came from.

My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.

I was named Rohan from the great West Indian cricketer Rohan Kanhai.

When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of Americas, that nobody knew about. My due date also happened to be 14 April.

My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.

I was named after my mother's maiden name.

My parents gave me a Mexican name. In our culture, we are named after the events of the day.

My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish.

My son was named after my father, whose name was Ranbir Raj Kapoor.