Quotes About Heritage

I love the 6 Nations rugby. I feel very Scottish then. I feel very Scottish now, sitting in the middle of Chelsea. But that's part of our heritage - being part of Britain, part of Europe. I love being European.

Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.

The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.

In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America.

Besides Hindi and English, I can speak in Maithli, my native language, and in Bangla and Nepalese too. But I can just about make a smattering at Marathi.

When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.

I've always considered myself to be Russian: my native language is Russian.

I am a native Frenchwoman and proud of it.

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

I'm a true native of the Bay Area.

As you may know, I'm a native Texan. In fact I'm a fifth generation Texan.

None of Europe's modern nations are genuinely native.

Hawaii - the Aloha state - is built on the strength of its multicultural society, from our indigenous Native Hawaiian people to the many immigrants that followed.

My native place is Belgaum and I understand Kannada and have a flavor for acting in South Indian languages.

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.

I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me.

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

I have a hard problem, being some part Native American - being a Christian: do you get burned, do you get cremated, do you get - let the sharks eat you? How do you die?

Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list.

I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.

Horsemanship and the cowboy lifestyle and my culture as a Native American are all three things that are very, very important to me.

Being Native American, we were different than everybody else, but I never felt like I was different.

I'm a Native American actress.