Quotes About Heritage

I'm not against pulling down our statues of Confederate generals and Confederate leaders.

Confederate statues belong in a historical museum, not in a place of honor.

We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon.

I think Star City should have Unesco World Heritage status. It will need to be adapted a little bit and made more glamorous than it looks now, but it should definitely be protected for the future.

Israel will not be deprived of its status as a strong, Jewish and democratic state.

Both my parents are Catholic and staunch believers. I'm not a Catholic now, but I still carry part of it with me.

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.

If you get the basics right, you can freshen things up, you don't want to just regurgitate the past. But we gotta stay true to our historic selves.

Families used to come from somewhere, and that's where they stayed.

I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English.

In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage.

For better or worse, we have evolved for sure, but we've also maintained a certain core about who we are, which is we were raised on late '50s and early '60s rock n' roll and R&B, and you can always hear that throughout. And that's just always been who we were. As much as we've evolved, that's stayed the same.

I wouldn't have been born if my parents had stayed in China. Which is kind of funny. But it also just kind of fills me with this existential dread.

Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive.

The greatest legacy that I can have is to build a brand that lives beyond me and stays true to the DNA of the brand.

The British Museum is great for seeing how excellent we were at stealing things.

We are really living the American dream, to be a successful brand in the States and in Europe and to steep ourselves in our heritage. But we do it with a sense of humor. We don't take ourselves too seriously in fashion.

When your Dad was the creator of 'Moby Dick' you kind of steer clear of getting compared in a solo-ing aspect.

The origin of each of us stems from codes of genetic inheritance.

My roots are Carnatic music. I think everything stems from that.

It's crazy: the first black man to actually step foot in America came as a free man, as an explorer, with the Spaniards. That's something for me - as a black American, it gives me a little bit of pride because we were free and respected somewhere else before slavery became what it was.

I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

My stepfather and his large family - The Crafts - are from Chicago, so Chicago has always been home for me.