Quotes About Heritage

I really embrace the person and the life that I came from because that made me who I am today.

Much of my work is engaged with 'America' - the idea of America.

England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be.

They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.

I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.

I'm a proud Brit and a proud Englishman.

The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that are still standing, that domestic architecture.

I know my own heart to be entirely English.

People have told me to change it over the years, but my dad is always saying, 'Never change your name!' My middle name is O'Hara, so it's a pretty epic name. Emily O'Hara Ratajkowski.

8H has such an epic, storied history. You can feel that when you're in there.

Not only are we like the epitome of the American dream, we've been successful at the sport for so long that we know the Lopez name will always be part of the taekwondo world.

I don't think you can erase history.

The stories I always see about a first-generation kid trying to erase where they came from, or trying to just be white, I would watch those shows or movies and I was like, 'I don't get this.' This isn't how I feel.

I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.

It's really hard to escape where you were brought up. Not that I would ever want to escape it.

I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.

I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

My life is European.

We know so much about the European food story, and we're getting to know about the American food story; but we know so little about the African food story.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

If we follow the ancestral line of our umbilical cord from our mother, to her mother's mother, her mother's mother's mother, and so on, eventually we will reach our primal mother—the one we all share.

The umbilical cord is a precious lifeline that began in my primal mother and has come down to me.

debía acreditar que entre sus antepasados no existía ningún converso musulmán o judío.

Recognoverunt proceres (p. 45)