Quotes About Heritage

Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

Even my father's name is Sachin Tendulkar.

My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.

I don't mind if, according to the Law of Evolution, my grand grand grand etc. father is a monkey,but I do mind if he is a hyena or a jackal!

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.

You are — truly your father's son, Harry. . . .

I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

I am a soul in the world: in the world of my soul the whirled light from the day the sacked land of my father.

I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.

My father ran the gamut: a favorite of his was Josef Hofmann, but there was also Friedman, Rachmaninoff, Godowsky, Lhevinne, Moiseiwitsch, Paderewski, etc.

Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good.

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.

I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.

My father is Jaime Rodriguez from San Antonio, Texas, and I've got one whole half of my family that's Mexican through and through.

It's something families could do together. They can be passed on from father to son, or father to daughter.

I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.