Quotes About Heritage

Growing up, I always considered the Grand Ole Opry to be hallowed ground.

The Grand Ole Opry is an artist, and I am proud to be one of its songs.

The Opry is about sharing.

Anytime someone orders a pastrami sandwich on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.

What people don't understand is this is something that we only have in America. There is no other country in the world where the ordinary citizen can go out and enjoy hunting and fishing. There's no other nation in the world where that happens. And it's very much a part of our heritage.

I am an ordinary woman from a Tamil family.

Being from Oregon, it's part of who I am.

When I was growing up, both my grandmothers would play the organ, and we would all sing.

Telling my grandchildren stories of my growing up is some of our favorite times spent together. They want to know what it was like and what I did as a child. They seem to be especially interested in the organic and simplistic setting I grew up in.

When you talk about tradition, and organizations, the Steelers are one of the best in the NFL.

I'm from a town in Ohio called Orient.

Even though it's called Music Of Black Origin, it's not just music for black people. Music is for everybody. I think it's good that black music is acknowledged, and it's open for lots of artists, including white artists who have been inspired by black musical heritage.

I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.

We are African in origin and American in birth.

I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.

For me, what I try to heal is the major thing that I think all of us go through, where we came from. From our family of origin.

I would never be comfortable with an edited name. I have never hidden the fact that I am of Indian origin.

The only acceptable cravat is the original Croat one.

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.

So for everybody who allows themselves to be separated from me because I said 'African' instead of 'Nubian' or 'Black' or 'Kemet' or 'original' or 'Israelite,' don't be so foolish. I say 'African' because the continent of Africa is the land from which we all originate. It is the word that we are most familiar with right now.

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there.

We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit.