Quotes About Heritage

Like, in Asian culture, you have to be down with the family. You have to be down with all the crazy traditional or non-traditional things we do.

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.

My wife and I have always been Anglophiles. We always felt we were born in another life in England. I was in the Elizabethan era, and she was from the Norman conquest.

The Hudson's Bay Company has always been the guardian angel of the north.

Growing up in the north, it was natural for me to absorb the Punjabiness around me. I like their way of living, their large-heartedness. I know no other way.

Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.

When I get some time off, I like to go back to my roots in the North East. My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.

The Jewish exodus from North Africa, in the late nineteen-fifties and the nineteen-sixties, brought hundreds of thousands of Algerian, Moroccan, and Tunisian Jews to France.

We live in the United States. British settlers founded the first colony in North America. And English is our language.

I love North Carolina.

My mom had an encounter with the KKK when she was, I think, 7 years old in North Carolina. She snuck into a cross burning. I'm so lucky she didn't get caught, because I wouldn't be here.

Dot Helms and North Carolina are one and the same.

I'm really interested in history and when I looked into the settlers who came to my home state, North Carolina, I found that the largest settlement of Hebridean islanders outside of Scotland was right there in North Carolina.

I'm a North Carolina native. Grew up in North Carolina.

Every February, we celebrate the heritage and contributions of African Americans in North Carolina and around the country. North Carolina holds an important place in African American history going back generations.

I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their material. We have to write about what comes naturally and what interests us - so I do.

I was born in the Northeast, and I have Midwestern parents.

I'm from all over the Northeast.

My wife and I grew up in the Northeast but my daughters are sort of small-town girls, from the Midwest.

A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia.

I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from Mississippi.