Quotes About Heritage

The Indian heritage plays a very important role in my career, I have always wanted my Indian roots to be with me. I was also influenced by the urban culture around me back in the day.

My mother tongue is Punjabi, but my first language is Urdu, which was the case with the people in undivided Punjab.

I speak Hindi fluently because my mother speaks only in Hindi and Urdu.

Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus.

I feel Urdu and Punjabi are quite similar and therefore, I mostly make my songs in Punjabi.

America's legacy has been crafted by generations of hard-working men and women who moved to the United States from all over the globe to pursue their dreams.

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.

The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.

I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.

My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa.

Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.

Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.

My work... is my legacy.

To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

Architecture is the work of nations

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

I'm very proud of being Jewish. It means I have a good work ethic, and you get Jewish humour and you're allowed to tell Jewish jokes.

Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.

You and I, today and always, are to bear witness of Jesus Christ and declare the message of the Restoration. ... Missionary work is a manifestation of our spiritual identity and heritage.

I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.

What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.