Quotes About Heritage

Competing in my first Olympics in the country where my parents came from is pretty insane. I'm feeling nothing but excitement.

The Olympics are in my blood and everybody knows how much I love my country.

Once you are an immigrant, you never forget that you are one.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

I go to church for the cultural element. It's where you go to see Greek people once a week. It's real important to me, and I hope my children see they're part of something bigger than just this family.

First and foremost is what this country was based on: one nation under God.

That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.

One of the things that I am learning is that each generation will have its own negotiations with identity. And one generation can not necessarily help the other generation with it.

One of the things my mom used to do - I don't know why she chose me, but she chose me out of her six children to take to the African-American church that was in the town that we lived in Springfield, Missouri. And we would go to the church, and we would sit in the back row, and we would listen to all of the spirituals in the hymns.

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.

As I got more involved in music, one of the things that made me excited, from the time I was a child, was that clear link between our ancestors and the sounds we hear today.

Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.

People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as 100 percent of my blood and ancestry does come from India. Except, I've never lived one day of my life there. I can't speak even one word of its more than 22,000 dialects.

Not many people know this but we come from a long line of chicken, pineapple and onion farmers at Ingham in Queensland.

My husband is an only child of only child parents.

Now my children also don't have a particular religion as I also didn't have. The only difference is that now they have Muslim and Parsi also in their blood. So they may be called Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Sikh, Christian and Parsi!

In North America, what happens often is that they put race before nationhood. Everyone here is Hispanic-American, Chinese-American, African-American. But really, we're just North Americans of all these different descents. The only time I notice North Americans becoming national is when a war happens or a crisis happens.

I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.

Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.

I think that Atlanta has this huge well of black culture and openness to share all the things that we have made there.

I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something.

My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang.

Nuclear is an important part of the heritage of Duke. We operate the largest regulated nuclear fleet in the U.S. We love the diversity of the generation.

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.