Quotes About Heritage

The Jewish journey started in the land of Israel, and it always strove to return there against all odds and all limitations.

My father always wanted to be 'Col-bear.' He lived in the same town as his father, and his father didn't like the idea of the name with the French pronunciation. So my father said to us, 'Do what you want. You're not going to offend anybody.' And he was dead long before I made my decision.

It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer.

The thing that I love about India is the diversity. Every city is different and offers something unique so it's hard to pick a favourite.

Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.

Oh, it is a boon to have a lineage like mine. Of course there's additional responsibility, and I have to live up to expectations all the time, but that's fine with me.

I grew up in a factory town - Urbana, Ohio.

There's no question that I'm African-American. OK? I'm a black man. We're not going to escape that.

Basically, I grew up watching Carter girls on stage, watching my grandmother, my mom and my aunts perform. They used to say, 'Okay, Carter girls, you're on!'

I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.

Growing up in Oklahoma the way I did, and being raised the way I was raised by my parents, gave me such a strong foundation to go out into the world and fly, so to speak, the way I was able to do.

Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!

You've got to respect people; you've got to understand where they come from. We know where people in Oklahoma come from - that's why we get along.

I have family in Oklahoma City.

When people ask me where I'm from I say I'm from Oklahoma.

Though I graduated from Vanderbilt, I was born into a family of crazed University of Oklahoma football fans and became one.

I was born in Oklahoma.

I grew up in Oklahoma.

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.

We hear stories from our parents and our grandparents about what life was like in the old country or wherever they came from. They are biblical. They are truth. There could be no alternate history.

My grandparents from the old country, Latvia, were all musical on my father's side.

More kids should churn butter. That's how it was in the old days.

I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.

Personally, I like to think I'm like my old man. I like to think I have the brains he did.