Quotes About Heritage

A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.

I'm from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and my family is Punjabi.

I love being Canadian.

I'm a first-generation Canadian.

I am so proud to be a Canadian.

I'm American by birth, but I consider myself Canadian.

I'm a Canadian. I've always been a Canadian.

I'm always very proud when people ask me about being a Canadian.

All I can say is I'm proud to be Canadian.

Everything about Canada makes me proud to be Canadian.

We don't tell Canadian stories enough.

The core of who I am is Canadian.

Being Canadian is a great honor.

A cappella music has always been around. It's such an old form.

Most Japanese-Americans have that legacy. The camp experience is something of a calling card between them. They say, 'So, where were you interned?'

I care about my legacy.

I'm always very careful to say I'm Irish-Ethiopian because I feel Ethiopian and I look Ethiopian and I am Ethiopian. But there are 81 languages in Ethiopia, and I don't know any of them.

'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.

The Chinese, the African, and the European - they are all there. So the division of the Caribbean experience into being emphatically only African is absurd.

My mother was a seamstress, my father an itinerant carpenter.

I really feel that I've carried on my mother's legacy.

I am very aware of my family name. I'm very aware of the legacy that that kind of carries with it. And I think that I didn't want to lose any kind of hold of that. And I think once you're born into something that you're proud of and that you're aware of, you don't take it lightly.

You carry your country with you, it's part of your baggage.

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.