Quotes About Heritage

My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.

I have good genes in my family, so we'll see just how long I'll be around.

My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible.

What's really good is African drum music.

I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.

My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

Well, my mom was an Olympian, so we have some good genes on that front.

I think that food ties us to our community and our traditions, and it's the thing that makes us feel good and connected.

If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!

My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I've got the blood of a New Zealander, so I always kind of felt like I didn't belong - in a good way.

I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food.

I come from a good family. I come from a faith-based family.

Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.

It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.

Our greatest heritage is intangible.

The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go.

An Indian is an Indian regardless of the degree of Indian blood or which little government card they do or do not possess.

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they put me through. I miss African American culture, our speech, dance and cooking.

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!