Quotes About Heritage

I am from a place called Sardhana, which is near Meerut.

Lyricism was placed into my head in Ireland.

History has always fascinated me. Coming from a family that has it's own regal history, I always like places that have a rich past.

What I have noticed is that no two places in Calcutta are alike. I like the bylanes and the old places. This city has a lot of character.

I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.

I would never ever forget my roots. I am always going back. Sometimes if I am driving, I find myself taking different routes, going down the old places I used to go. My mum is still in the house I grew up in.

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.

A small gold plain cross was passed down from my grandma to my mom, then to me, and now to my daughter. It is always nice to own something that connects you to the women who made it possible for you to exist.

Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.

Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.

Well, you know, the original banjos were all handmade instruments. Gourd - it would be made with gourds and whatever, you know, materials would have been around. And, you know, first hundred years of its existence, the banjo's known as a plantation instrument, as a black instrument, you know?

I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.

Imagine if you grew up in a place where your lineage was there for a hundred years, and part of the culture was to play music 50 percent of the time. You'd probably have a lot of musicians in your family too.

I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians.

My father was a steelworker who'd come over from Abruzzi, in Italy. He played in the band and he encouraged me to be a musician.

I love the way the game of golf is lived and played in Scotland. I always have.

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage.

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

Shanghai, the city where I was born and spent my first four and a half years. It's not necessarily the most pleasant or most comforting place, but I have blood memory there, my core was formed there, so I need to go back often, or else I become empty, lost, without meaning.

Our father was a farmer and an entrepreneur as well as a musician, and we're pleased to deliver the fine taste of Jamaican coffee and our family's heritage to people everywhere through Marley's One Drop.

One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.

Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.