Quotes About Heritage

My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. My dad's family had a general store, which I never saw. My grandparents on his side had already died before I started noticing things.

My maternal grandfather owned a grocery store that also sold kosher meat. He did well.

Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a pasta factory, so as a kid, he and his siblings would sell pasta door to door. After he became a movie producer, he opened up De Laurentiis Food Stores - one in Los Angeles and one in New York.

Earthlings are confused, insecure. And some Earthlings have no heritage: that's what leads them to kill each other and rob 7-11 stores.

We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there.

Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these hard, hard stories.

My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.

My grandfather told me our history through his stories about all the great Zulu battles.

All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners.

You, too, will be driven away from your native land and ancient domains as leaves are driven before the wintry storms. Sleep not longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws, in false security and delusive hopes. Our broad domains are fast escaping from our grasp.

Food is all about the story of a people through the ages.

My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but the acting influence must have been from her - yes, put it down to my mother.

My mother was an oral storyteller. She would tell stories over and over again.

I don't know if it's unique, but I know many Korean American people of my generation who want to know about their grandparents' lives in Korea, but their family members won't tell them because it's too painful. But my grandmother is just a natural storyteller, and she very openly spoke about really difficult times in her life.

My whole family are hams. They're storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

I come from a long line of storytellers.

I come from a family of storytellers.

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.

When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.

I come from a big family of storytellers and, growing up, I liked hearing about the years before I was born.

I come from a family of Russian immigrant Jews who were all big storytellers, who would get together, and one would try to top the others' stories, and stories would get bigger and bigger. And the lying aspect, the exaggeration, would get large.

I think all Latino actors want to be storytellers first. I want to be an actor first, and then I want to be Latina.