Quotes About Heritage

I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.

II grew up in Australia, but I'm not from there originally. Like, my dad's South American, so I know what that's like to grow up in a culture that's not your own.

I remember a very nurturing, safe environment: everybody knew who I was, who my parents were, who my grandparents were, what part of Russia we were from originally. That was a really comforting feeling. Non-Mennonites, when they see that aspect of it, think it's a beautiful thing, and it is, but there's so much going on besides.

I'm originally from Nova Scotia.

My dad was into classic rock and R&B, which I originally started in. And then my mom did the country.

We're from North Carolina originally.

My mum originally taught me to cook.

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

I'm half Egyptian, and I'm Muslim. But I grew up in Canada, far from my Arab roots. Like so many who straddle East and West, I've been drawn, over the years, to try to better understand my origins.

My maternal grandmother, a.k.a. Nanny, wasn't much of a cook. As a kid I remember her making only a handful of things, mostly dishes with Ashkenazi Jewish origins like kasha and bowties (which, for the record, only my dad liked).

'I am not adopted; I have mysterious origins.' I have said that sentence many times in the course of my life as an adopted person.

I was not born in Telangana but my origins are in Telangana. My parents Varalaxmi and Srinivas Prasad hailed from Ramannagudem.

Orlando is my history.

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.

You know, for 300 years it's been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn't changed in 125 years, so how is one going to change or evolve the food?

I don't know what America would be without New Orleans and the music.

One of the most special things about the city of New Orleans is how diverse a people we really are. There's been a new generation of individuals that have all grown up together, so I don't really see myself as a White mayor. I've never seen New Orleans as a Black city.

People from New Orleans are extremely prideful.

There's so much music going on in New Orleans.

I'm originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I just feel like it's something that always been inside of me.

All New Orleans music is based off dance music, even jazz.

Since I'm born here, my music will always have some New Orleans elements.