Local Heritage Quotes

I have roots in Jabalpur and that's as Indian as it can get.

I'm a kid from Boston.

Being able to invest in my community and invest in areas that people might not really know about and monuments that people might not know about in their own backyard is a great opportunity.

When I got a chance, I went back and shared those experiences that were important to me. George Washington High, the campus at San Francisco State, and even back to Emerson Elementary school and Roosevelt Junior High. I was happy to do it, to go back and see if all the same teachers were there.

I spent a lot of time in Brooklyn as a kid. I was born in New York, and my grandmother lived in Crown Heights, so there's a part of it that I feel this connection to.

If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.

I'm from East Texas, yes.

My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

I come from Lambeth, Brixton.

I was born and raised in L.A. My father was born and raised in L.A. So we're old hands here.

You can tap into culture by exploring what's grown or produced in the region, like going into the Blue Mountains in Jamaica to visit a coffee plantation or a rum distillery in Barbados.

While we might now have expanded into the U.S.A. with our California office, I'm a Coundon girl born and bred and proud that Crafter's Companion is based in the North East of England.

It's something to be proud of... I'm a proud New South Welshman.

In Ireland every place you visit and every person you meet has a story. And they love to tell you their stories. Everyone is interested in everything; in a land of storytellers, you will never be bored.

Basically, I have found that people who have tried to start communities out of good feelings or hippie-dippie abstract concepts of love - it doesn't work. But if you just concentrate on what is the identity of your town - its waterfalls, its battles, its notable mill strike or those things - you dig into what your town is from its rock formations to its history to its food. Then this thing called community happens all the time.

I'm not Italian, I am Neapolitan! It's another thing!

I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist.

I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.

I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

If you go to Udaipur, even the locals from the lower middle class have a certain air about them. They are very proud of their heritage and history.

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

Some of my family goes back a long way in Denver.

The truth about the Costa del Sol is that what endures, what is worthwhile, is what is Spanish.

My roots really instilled Chicago values in me.

I'm really nostalgic for Malibu area because I've spent so much time there. People don't think of California as having a history.