Quotes About Heritage

I have Spanish ancestry and, indeed, speak the language, up to a point.

I grew up on 23, country music highway, which is a stretch of road where Ricky Skaggs and Dwight Yoakam and Loretta Lynn played. Driving up and down that on the way to school - to baseball games, to anywhere - you see all these signs commemorating these artists. It was a point of pride for my area growing up.

If you think about jeans or phones or television, we are used to new brands popping up right and left. But in the car industry, we grew up with Mercedes, BMW, General Motors, and Ford, and nobody can remember during his or her upbringing a new car brand coming to life.

I was born in Paris, and my mother was a French teacher, but then I rebelled against my upbringing and studied Spanish in school. So now I just speak bad French and bad Spanish.

My mom and dad met at U. Conn., and their lives couldn't have been more different in terms of their upbringing.

For me, being an 'American Latina' means identifying with and being influenced by both my American upbringing and my Latin heritage, and I have so much appreciation for how those two cultures have created who I am.

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.

Unfortunately, in my home, we didn't speak Arabic; it was a mixed culture. My mother played a dominant role in our educational upbringing, and we grew up as part and parcel of Belize's culture.

Storytelling was a way to see the world bigger than the one you were looking at, and that had great appeal for me. I think, since that was part of my upbringing, it became part of me, and I wanted to pass it along to my kids and my grandkids.

What it depends on is someone's upbringing and the traditions and that is how you decide if you are Jewish or not.

Singing has been part of my upbringing.

I've come from a grounded family and had a good upbringing.

My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.

I think my sense of color I have got from my upbringing in Peru.

Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.

I make no bones about it, I'm a product of my upbringing and of the time I was brought up, so I'm not going to pretend not to be.

My grandmother and my upbringing filled me with the spirit of the church and the spirit of the faith brought by Africans to the new land during slavery.

My home and my upbringing and just the problems in my family within my extended family were such that it truly was a mix of the good, bad, and the ugly.

I had a very good upbringing, which I'm eternally grateful for.

I'm a strong believer in God. It could be because of my upbringing and my family environment.

I had a very traditional upbringing. Family has always been really important to me.

I come from a very good family and my upbringing was good, everyone knows that.

There was a stage when I was a little embarrassed about my Asian upbringing.

I had a good upbringing.