Quotes About Heritage

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.

If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.

My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

Every son quotes his father, in words and in deeds.

I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.

Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.

Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers... are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover sounds chance to fall upon their ears.

I look a lot like my father when he was my age.

My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy.

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

I'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.

I was born to an Arab father and I was born Islamic.

I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.

I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing.

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

My father belonged to a Jewish social club.

I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.