Quotes About Heritage

It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.

I'm a history nut.

Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians.

Looting has an immense impact on our ability to understand our global cultural heritage; once these objects are gone, so too is our chance of piecing together humanity's shared story.

It was just the DNA of my family. Giving back didn't feel like an entitlement; it was an obligation.

I'm the last senior executive who was hired by Roy Vagelos. It's an honor, but it also imposes upon me an obligation not only to think about his legacy but also about this company's legacy.

Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.

No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.

Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.

I'm obsessed with historical English royalty.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times.

It is more than obvious that Ferrari has a big place in my heart since I was born and, also, in the hearts of our family.

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is.

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

There are occasions when I've had beef, but I generally tend to avoid it, as a nod towards my parents' culture.

My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

Nella nostra famiglia non c'era una chiara linea di demarcazione tra religione e pesca a mosca.

In the South of Spain, one could look to vice as quickly as to virtue for a sense of tradition.

Incarnación Felipe de la Cruz y Monte Piedras

El mexicano no quiere ser ni indio, ni español. Tampoco quiere descender de ellos. Los niega. Y no se afirma en tanto que mestizo, sino como abstracción: es un hombre. Se vuelve hijo de la nada. Él empieza en sí mismo.

La historia de México es la del hombre que busca su filiación, su origen.