My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name.
Mary Steenburgen
FunMeNameBackHeritageNobody
Look at our farmers' markets today, bursting with heritage breeds and heirloom varieties, foods that were once abundant when we were an agricultural nation, but that we have lost touch with. Bringing all these back helps us connect to our roots, our communities and helps us feed America the proper way.
Jose Andres
TodayRootsAmericaLookHeritage
I know I'm British. I haven't spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasn't British, what would I be? I am British.
Chris Froome
FamilyTimeI AmParentsHeritage
It's the state of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. That is our heritage. It is what makes us Virginia.
Corey Stewart
HeritageUsVirginiaStateOurLee
The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and it merits the formal distinction of America's National Tree.
Bob Goodlatte
TreeAmericaLongHeritageMighty
The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.
Anthony Kennedy
WorkFreedomGenerationHeritageOur
Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.
Philip Yancey
LiveChristianHeritageLiving
There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.
Sherman Alexie
BasketballPoliticalHeritageSocial
Like most reasonable people, it saddens me when I see Americans celebrating a heritage they don't understand.
Ryan Holiday
PeopleMeHeritageUnderstandSee
I cherish my beautiful Italian heritage.
Lidia Bastianich
BeautifulHeritageCherishItalian
In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.
Jane Smiley
HeartIdentityHeritageRightHonest
I'm very interested in heritage restoration, and I'm working with a group of people to create a number of academies and performance spaces to encourage native arts and crafts and to explore African history.
Hugh Masekela
HistoryPeoplePerformanceHeritage
To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers.
Henrietta Szold
RestViewHeritageJewishScholar
Even if you aren't a believer, there are incredible stories in the 'good book' that I guarantee you will keep you glued to the page. The Bible is no less a part of our cultural heritage than Shakespeare is - and by the way, Shakespeare's plays are absolutely loaded with Biblical references.
Eric Metaxas
GoodBookBibleYouHeritagePage
Purcell is a composer who had a formative influence on British music - even The Who now cite him as an influence. There's an intense, dirty harmony, but there's a Louis XIV kind of elan and style, too. He had the melancholy DNA of our national folk heritage.
Charles Hazlewood
MusicStyleInfluenceDirtyHeritage
Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.
Albert J. Nock
LifeSpiritualEnvironmentHeritage
If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.
Ray Davies
MusicWorldDieHeritageNewWill
So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.
Margaret Whiting
MusicTryingHeritageTeachersOut
As a Muslim, I like to watch Fox News for the same reason I like to play 'Call of Duty.' Sometimes, I like to turn my brain off and watch strangers insult my family and heritage.
Hasan Minhaj
FamilyBrainStrangersHeritagePlay
The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.
Yair Lapid
HeritageImportantMoreExistence
My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.
Tamara Tunie
FamilyHistoryAmericanHeritageUp
I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'
Oscar Isaac
HappyHeritageWantActorLatino
We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas.
Jim Ryun
StrongHeritageKansasAgricultural
The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.
Jack Schwartz
BackHeritageCivilizationJewish
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