Quotes About Heritage

The pine is the mother of legends.

Greece is the mother of democracy and South Africa is its youngest daughter

I live in Paris but I feel I am a daughter of Europe.

Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.

Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John.

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

We don't like to say that [my wife was Jewish] because her mother was Jewish, which means she was Jewish. So don't imply that my wife was a shikse.

There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.

My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.

My father has passed away. He was African-American. My mother is white. So I was adopted by a couple that was of a similar dynamic as my biological parents.

While he bore no real resemblance to anyone in my family, his features were a collection of my mother's and father's best attributes, with a few of Gregory Peck's thrown in.

My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

I think my mother would be very happy if I found a nice Welsh girl.

Talking about your home town is like talking about your own mother.

My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a black mother, wife, churchgoer, etc. I am the legacy of slavery.

My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.

I'm the daughter of a sister whose the mother of a brother who's the brother of another.

I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.

I look a lot like my father and his mother.

It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that.