Quotes About Heritage

Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.

'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.

The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.

Parkour does not have to be liked or disliked! Parkour is here and it will stay here forever! Because it was born from a pure heart and nourished from all the love that a son can give to his father!

I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

Our founding fathers started this country and built it on God and His Word, and this country sure would be a better place to live and raise our children if we still followed their ideals and beliefs.

My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.

It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.

Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

Like my father I, too, was born in Central America - Nebraska.

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father.

I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you - my father taught me.

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.

I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.