Quotes About Heritage

I want to remain that family farmer independence, which I think is so critical to this country. I think it's helped build this country.

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

Half of my mum's family is Welsh. I remember when I was a kid she used to read to me, and witches and wizards in books always had a Welsh accent, so I guess I took it from that really.

My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor.

My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

I warn black Americans'don't get too mixed. A little is fine, but not to the point where you're out of the family.

My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.

My mother's side is Italian; my father's side is Jewish. We're the kind of family where every Sunday night we have dinner with all 19 of my cousins.

Your ancestors are rooting for you.

I really find that with Judaism, it creates an amazing blueprint for family connectivity.

I'm really in touch with my Italian roots. My mom's whole side of the family is there.

The family with an old person in it possesses a jewel.

I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.

Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.

When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.

Never brag about your ancestors coming over on the Mayflower the immigration laws weren't as strict in those days.

I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi Pavarotti DiMaggio Valentino De Niro Giuliani. . .

If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.

The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.

I do not have to look for credentials for my Polishness and for my patriotism. I'm a Pole. The chronicles of my family go back - as far back as the 13th century.

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.