Quotes About Heritage

My family were from Jamaica.

I suppose that when I'm building a character, it's usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up - that nurture side.

My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.

I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.

My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family of musicians. My grandmother's sister in Puerto Rico plays five instruments.

My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.

I was born in Georgia. That's where my grandparents-and all my people-are from. But my family traveled a great deal because my dad was in the army as a helicopter pilot.

When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.

In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.

Storytelling is the greatest activity of any culture. Storytelling is how you build a family, how you pass along identity.

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.

Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.

You are part of our Great British family.

Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.

My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.

I didn't have a very religious family.

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

Wonderful to see with the whole family. It's like travelling from dynasty to dynasty, from one Chinese region to another.

Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

Girls, I need to tell you some things about our family," Sabrina said. "Have you ever heard of the Brothers Grimm?

In my very own self, I am part of my family.