Quotes About Heritage

Our music has gotten polluted today. We are straying far from our culture. Other people are trying to grab our culture, but we are very far from our culture.

When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came out of Britain and America. I was all set to abandon it entirely.

The whole world recognizes Russia's cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature.

We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people.

One reason I'm grateful to call Hawai'i home is that the people of these islands embrace diversity and celebrate the colorful fabric of race, ethnicity, and religion that make up our people, place, and culture.

It's a really important thing for Aboriginal people to remember how stories are told and the power of stories, and make it an important feature in our world again.

Whatever I talk about onstage is just my story. My fan base is broad... We all have the same mom; it's just that ours has an accent.

Kashmir is ours, Kashmiris are ours, and Kashmiriyat is also ours.

All of the land of Israel is ours.

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.

I'm a fun-loving guy. We are basically from Amritsar and ours is a chilled-out family. I think I have got my humour from my mother.

It's for the common people, people who have made this great country of ours. That's what the heck I say we always write about.

My father married once. I married once. This is a conviction of ours. This is the way we grew up.

My mother was not very good about keeping clothes; if they were outdated, she'd give them to an aunt or cousins or museums.

Harris Tweed as been around since before the Industrial Revolution when it was a handmade cloth from the Outer Hebrides in Scotland.

If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.

Maybe this is because I'm a comics historian as much as anything else, but I really have a deep-seated respect for the characters that have been around since before I was born and are probably going to outlive me.

I'm a Latina. Everything is outspoken in my culture.

If you look at most of the Royal Houses in Europe, the inbreeding was pretty outstanding.

I don't think I'm over-the-top cocky, I'm just proud of where I came from.

It's my heritage overall, my people. Mexicans are known for being hard-working people, showing a lot of heart. I wanted to show people I am Mexican and I'm proud of it.

So much of me is because of what my parents experienced in this country. So much of me is because of the things my parents overcame so that I could have the luxury of having a dream.

We have overcome economic devastation, defeated mighty oppressors, and lifted up generation after generation of Americans. We can - and we will - do it again. For that is our birthright as members of the American family - white, black, Hispanic, Asian, immigrant, or descendant of the Founding Fathers themselves.

Nevadans, and all Americans, are resilient. Overcoming adversity is a part of our national heritage.