Quotes About Heritage

Trains tap into some deep American collective memory.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food."—MICHAEL POLLAN

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

I wish I was in de land ob cotton,Old times dar am not forgotten.Look away, look away,Look away, Dixie Land.

In Dixie's land, we'll took our stand,To lib an' die in Dixie!

Over the years, I found myself traveling parts of the Lewis and Clark Trail, putting my hands in the river where they set out from St. Louis, viewing the Great Falls of Montana, standing by the same Pacific Ocean they saw with such joy.

The stories in our music form a special viewpoint on the story of America in the 20th Century.

I grew up in the South, and I think there are lots of people who have distorted views of the South.

American music has infiltrated the entire world enough as it is. Mexican music must be defended with vigilance.

We must be vigilant in protecting Nevada's outdoor heritage and make this a top priority.

If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.

Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history.

My father is from the village of Beranci, Macedonia, and my mother is from Greece.

I think if I hadn't been born in a pit village I'd have been part of a dramatic society.

I was born on August 10, 1913, in Lorenzkirch, a small village in Saxony, as the fourth child of Theodor and Elisabeth Paul, nee Ruppel. All in all, we were six children. Both parents were descendants from Lutheran ministers in several generations.

I was born in New York but grew up between Switzerland, where my mom is from, and Tunisia, where my dad is from. Now I live in the East Village in New York, in the same building where my parents lived when I was born, so I've come full circle in my life.

My mum's from a very rural village in Nigeria, she grew up in a war, and for her it was really important that my brothers and I knew how to fend for ourselves. My dad bought me a Swiss army knife for my 13th birthday and we used to go camping and he showed me how to light fires.

I come from a small village.

I was the first member of my family to cross into Pakistan and find his ancestral village.

My mother is from Greece: she comes from Vrahos, a small village in Kastoria.

I hail from Padhyana village in Adampur district near Jalandhar.

I was brought up telling stories, when I was a kid, in the tiny village where I grew up. Storytelling was a tradition.

After so many years, I feel more American than anything else, but I'm also Romanian and whatever other oddities of temperament I picked up elsewhere, in Transylvania or France, for instance. These days, everybody is both an exile and a resident - they don't call it the global village for nothing.