Quotes About Heritage

To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.

I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish.

I've done a lot of period stuff but that's mostly because, in England, we get off on a lot of period stuff, but it's not any kind of particular choice. That's where a lot of the work is.

[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.

I much prefer to work with dead writers, and ones who were writing four hundred years ago.

You will get your father's wealth one day but not his legacy.

I, in particular, am in a confusing spot because I am Indian, but I am white, which people don't get. So often I find myself struggling to explain my Indianness.

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

My dad is such a Cuban man - he's as stubborn as me.

If there ever was an 'America's team,' it would be itty-bitty, little Green Bay, stuck way up there somewhere, owned by the salt-of-the-Earth citizens themselves.

We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

I'm a Muslim Egyptian-American, born in Cairo. I grew up in Kuwait until the first Gulf War, when my family relocated to the United Arab Emirates. As an adult, I studied and lived in the U.K. before moving to Boston.

The Hawaiian language needs to be studied globally as a language of life.

The public library is where I studied. It's where my grandfather taught himself English.

I studied in Kerala, so learnt to read and write Malayalam.

I studied the sciences up until going to college, and I was either going to do medicine or drama. I chose drama, but I come from a whole line of doctors.

Both my mother and my grandmother aspired to be opera singers. And they studied it.

When I first heard the minstrel banjo - I played a gourd first - I almost lost my mind. I was like, Oh, my god. And then I went to Africa, to the Gambia, and studied the akonting, which is an ancestor of the banjo, and just that connection to me was just immense.

I studied music at Dakhhini.

I enrolled to do a TAFE course on Indigenous Studies, and over the next two-and-a-half years of my course I learned so much about my people and my culture in a broader sense. It made me so proud of my Aboriginality and our history in this country, which dates back over 40,000 years.

I was born in Messina, Sicily. I stayed there until I was 18 and finished my studies.

My father believed in moving on with time; he always said that the show must go on, come what may. That is exactly what we did when it came to RK Studios.

In an age of molecular genomics, it is ever more apparent that the fingerprints of evolution are pressed deeply into human DNA, just as they are into the genomes of every other organism. Biologists understand this, and so do students who study the science of life.

No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.