Regional Heritage Quotes

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

I'm from Limburg, near the German border.

My dream is to own a Hockney - I'm a Yorkshireman, and his vibrant colours are a good example of how the north-country people are vibrant and colourful.

I'm proud of where I'm from. I'm proud of Long Island.

I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.

I've never stopped being a Hoosier.

More than anything, I'm proud to say I'm from Saginaw.

I'm proud to be from the North-East.

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.

Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie - in Alabama - Dixie is slipping. They've stopped using the word in commercial listings.

My family has existed in eastern Kentucky for as long as there are records. If you're familiar with the famous Hatfield-McCoy family feud back in the 1860s, '70s and '80s in the United States, my family was an integral part of that.

We are Punjabis from Amritsar, though I was born and brought up in Mumbai and did my Bachelors in Mass Media, specializing in advertising and marketing.

One day, it just dawned on me that I'm from Texas, and that's what I am.

I still think probably the only thing I'm suited for is being a boy from Texas.

The storytelling tradition that you bring from the South, I don't know where it arose, but it's still there. You can't go to the feed store, or the country courthouse without running into storytellers.

The day Elvis passed away would be our national holiday, if the South would have won, we'd had it made.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

I was born in Catanzaro, Italy, from a Calabrese mother and a Ligurian father.

My entire family is from Palakkad, and my grandmother grew up in Kerala, as did my mom.

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

When Gypsy was older, after she became Gypsy Rose Lee, I think she was both proud and slightly ashamed of her Seattle roots. She worked very hard to rid her voice of any trace of a local accent, cultivating an affected way of speaking that sounded as if she pinned the ends of her words.

Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality... I'm South American - we celebrate life.

Yes, I'm a real southern boy.

I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious of that. It's probably because my friend Jack Womack has a thesis that he and I write the way we do because we're southern and we experienced the very tail end of the premeditated south.