Quotes About Heritage

A Dutchman can't easily get away from cheese. I was dropped into a cauldron of cheese when I was young.

It's really cheesy, but basically, 'Roots' got me to find out my own roots.

I'm from Chicago and it's a huge influence on me.

I was raised on the Southside of Chicago, and my whole family was musically-inclined.

I also wanted people to know that football actually started in China almost 3000 years ago.

I grew up in a Chinese American enclave where the person who lived down the street had literally lived down the street from my mother in Shanghai.

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.

My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them.

Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.

Chinese people need to be aware of their present and ask, 'What's our culture? What can we bring to the world?' I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

My mom sang in high school choir and so did my father.

Nobody chooses where they're born. And, of course, I would know.

My parents were Christian.

My parents weren't massively religious when I was growing up, my granddad was and I got a lot of my Christianity from him.

Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity.

What dominates my life isn't the fact that I started off doing theatre. It's probably to do with Christianity, my race, the class I was born into. These are the things that make my work. They make who I am as well.

We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.'

I come from a Chrysler family.

I come from Cincinnati.

I will always be the first Latina Cinderella, so I always have that to take with me, and I'm very proud of that. I believe that it was a life-changing experience for me.

When I became an American citizen, nothing's changed because I'm still Asian.

I am an Israeli-born American citizen.