Heritage Influence Quotes

While I resonate deeply with my maternal cultural heritage, I identify as American.

The Indian heritage plays a very important role in my career, I have always wanted my Indian roots to be with me. I was also influenced by the urban culture around me back in the day.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.

I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.

I'm a whole lot more than just Spanish or Irish or whatever, but definitely, it's given me help. It's given me a push, and I'm very proud of my Spanish heritage.

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

I want to be a soldier as my father was.

My grandmother's mother was from near Naples, so I love Italy, but I feel completely Argentinian.

British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.

I think my heritage makes me very open to try things, taking on different flavours, mixing it all up. I find that exciting.

I've got some Jewish ancestry and I don't like waste.

My success is that I have these two great cultures behind me. One is Italian. I've continued to nurture that. But I also feel very American.

I come from a long line of saloon keepers and proselytizers, and I draw from both sides.

You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.

The nature of fashion is family.

I am not of Virginia blood; she is of mine.

I'm of Cypriot heritage, we have no concept of portion control.

I love the English aesthetic; in a way, I feel it is close to my own, a beautiful chaos; it is a powerful mix of the past and the present.

I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.

I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.