Marcello Giordani Quotes

All lands are beautiful in the eyes of their people.

I love my heritage both as someone who grew up as a Muslim and as an Indian - it's part of who I am and I would never deny it.

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.

In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.

My dad's from Zimbabwe, and my mom is Danish, Irish, and Norwegian, so I have influences from a lot of different places.

New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.

I love drama - mum calls me a Drama Queen!

There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.

Museums, I love museums.

I love California. It has such a strong contribution to the history of culture, and popular culture. For better and worse, of course. Even the worst can be interesting to some degree sometimes for somebody creative.

I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.

All of our ancestors came from somewhere.

I am very proud of my Australian roots.

America was founded on immigrants. The immigrant experience is common to all of us.

Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.

I love historical references.

My parents are both immigrants, and we traveled a lot.

The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.

I am so proud to be from New Orleans and to be one of those people who had been displaced. I wasn't there during that time, but that's where I come from, that kind of poverty, and I'm very, very proud of that because it's given me my history.

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.