Quotes About Heritage

My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.

I came from somewhat of a musical family. I had an uncle on Broadway. My dad kind of knows how to play instruments. Although, I always find it annoying when he does play an instrument.

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.

It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on parade floats and march 'em through the middle of town.

I'm just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

Yeah, my family is of Indian heritage.

I have 52 first cousins. My mom and dad were the only two to move to North America, so I've got deep family there, but I'm a California kid.

As the son of an immigrant family, I am happy to be a guest in U.S, which was largely built by such families.

And when I look back I recognize now that I indeed do come from a large family of artists. Whether they necessarily realize it or not.

My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.

My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.

I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it. The only thing I know about it is what I picked up from my aunts and parents.

I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice.

I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there.

I personally believe that the writing of personal and family histories will do more to turn the hearts of the children to the fathers and the fathers to children than almost anything we can do

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.

I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.

Music just runs in my family. My dad and my uncles are a gospel quartet, Latimore Brothers. They've been doing their thing ever since I was a kid, so I just kind of grew up around that.

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a working man, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

Im from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree.

India, to some extent, courses through my blood. My father was brought up there, and my grandfather served there, and so on. We have a very strong family affinity for the place.