Quotes About Heritage

I'm a good Jewish boy from Edison, New Jersey, so I went and saw 'Fiddler on the Roof' because you have to: that's part of your bar mitzvah experience.

I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went to a small black AME church in New Jersey.

I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey.

I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.

I feel very connected to New Jersey.

The Clash will always be from London, and we will always be from New Jersey. But New Jersey doesn't create us.

It's just an honor to compete in New York, New Jersey, the tri-state area, where we're from. I have so much roots there, so much family.

My dad's from New Jersey, so I used to go to America a lot. I feel like it is a second home.

I always cherish my ancestors, my grandpa, great-grandpa, what they did for us, especially my dad who moved from Bosnia. He started a new life in Slovenia so basically I grew up there.

I'm very proud of New Order and Joy Division, that heritage of songs.

There is a restless identity in the New World. The New World needs an identity without guilt or blame.

If you crave an anti-new year New Year, consider adopting Rosh Hashana as your own.

I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.

I was born in New York City speaking French at home.

New York City belongs to the people that was here and made New York City what it is.

I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut.

Everyone was a footballer in my family. My grandfather Wilf played for Newcastle and my cousins play. It's in the blood.

Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right next door to what is effectively a listed historic building, and that makes it exciting.

Legacy is not what I did for myself. It's what I'm doing for the next generation.

For one year, I was Keith Mitchell Coogan on my headshots. The next year, I was just Keith Coogan. And I have gone by that ever since, maybe 1984 or 1985. That is my mother's maiden name, and it was out of reverence for my grandfather.

Neither one of my parents played sports at a very high level when they grew up in Nicaragua.

I used to have hair so long, my nickname was Pocahontas.

All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.

My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'