Quotes About Heritage

There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from.

I was raised in a very blue-collar family.

Perserverance. . .that's been the story of my family.

There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.

Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.

The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.

The album ['A Seat at the Table'] really feels like storytelling for us all and our family and our lineage.

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

If the family goes, so goes our civilization.

People ask 'How do you get so eh-ish?' I don't know if it's just because so much of my family still lives in Canada and I finished studies up there.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

The problem for me is that I look like so many people in my family, so I can't really see anything. Except I could say that I look rather like my father without his mustache.

My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.

Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.

So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

I come from a food family, so you would think that I would be great at making baked beans or something, but I'm not.

We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?

My family is very large. 42 million.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

Three-quarters of my family is Irish. Of course, the "Kazee" is not.