Quotes About Heritage

I think my feet were on the ground, and I had good family around me. It comes down to who you are and your upbringing.

My upbringing saved me.

There's a particular quality that those of us who live on the border share; we can switch from being Mexican to being American in an instant just by scanning our surroundings. Not everybody has this superpower; it takes a very specific kind of upbringing to instill a deep pride in two very different cultures.

Music was a big part of my upbringing. My mum and my grandma are very passionate about music.

My upbringing in Rampur has contributed a lot to what I am today.

My mother had a Spanish upbringing. She was an excellent cook. Everything was home-made. We didn't eat food with smiley faces on it. My Mum passed away in 1994. I miss her. I miss her cooking. It would be nice to have a meal with her again.

I did experience a different type of upbringing having two completely different cultures.

I was born in a temple to a priest father, in a place like Benaras. So, my upbringing has been influenced by such surroundings.

I came from a very military, Christian, Southern upbringing.

I feel very American, but my upbringing was quite the opposite.

Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don't have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I've tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it.

You can re-interpret the past. Tradition can always be updated. But it is wrong to say 'throw it out.'

My parents never referenced Ethiopia that much, largely because of the circumstances under which we left. We left during a time of political upheaval, and there was a lot of loss that came with that, so my parents were reluctant to talk about those things. So I had, by and large, an American childhood.

Andrade had a large reputation to uphold because of his rich family heritage in Mexico, and he upheld that reputation because of my management behind the scenes.

The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.

Everything is always grungy in England, no? It's like a little shibboleth of the upper class, wearing something out of your grandfather's trunk.

Centuries of history risk disappearing if Islamization, which up until now has been underestimated, gains the upper hand.

Given this voice, I know it does sound like I've come from money. But my dad was Canadian and my mum Hungarian, so it's not like I have some high-society, upper-class English background.

My father is Hungarian and moved to Britain during the uprising, and my Spanish mum comes from Galicia; they moved here at the end of the Fifties.

When I'm a little bit upset, my eyebrow goes up, and that is a trait that my beautiful mother passed down to me. We always knew in the house: 'Mommy's upset; her eyebrow just went up.'

You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations.

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

My mother was from upstate New York; she's of Irish and German descent. My father was from Ghana.

When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.