Ethnic Origin Quotes

My mother is Brazilian, and her grandfather was Italian.

My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.

We are Macedonians but we are Slav Macedonians. That's who we are! We have no connection to Alexander the Greek and his Macedonia. The ancient Macedonians no longer exist, they had disappeared from history long time ago. Our ancestors came here in the 5th and 6th century (AD).

My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She has a West Virginian accent. My father was born in China, but he's the son of an American citizen. My paternal grandfather was born in San Francisco in 1867.

The majority of my blood is Asian.

The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify.

My parents were born in Korea. They spent a good part of their life in Korea.

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.

I am first Prime Minister of this country of neither all together English nor French origin .... I am determined to bring about the Canadian citizenship that knew no hyphenated consideration.

We have no concern with South America. We can have no well-founded political sympathy with them. We are sprung from different stock.

I see people all the time today, and they really don't care if their doctor is of Pakistani origin; what they care about is that they are getting a good service, and these are people that they do really see as British. I do think society has changed very positively like that.

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My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.

I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria.

My father is Swedish and my mother is French.

I am Jewish and proud of this culturally and ethnically - the ways in which I was born this way and am happy with whom I am.

I'm from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and my family is Punjabi.

I would never be comfortable with an edited name. I have never hidden the fact that I am of Indian origin.

How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept?

I wanna say 'China', but I don't really mean 'China.' I just mean the places that Chinese people come from.

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn.

Yeah, my family is of Indian heritage.

Obviously I descend from Africa.

It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.