Kate Nash Quotes

I'm part German and part Irish. In fact, there's even a town in Germany that was named after my family, Limbach or so forth. And I don't know. I might even have some Indian blood in there.

In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.

I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.

I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.

I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors.

On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude.

I am proud of my heritage and my family.

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.

One should live with history round one.

I want children to feel proud of their heritage.

My Irish identity is important as it's a part of who I am.

History is very much bound up in family experience.

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture.

The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.

My mother was from West Bromwich; my grandfather was Pakistani. I had an aunt who started trying to trace the family tree and stopped when she saw what turned up.

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

My mother is French-Italian with a little Spanish blood in her. I've been raised, and she was, as far as I know, raised as a Christian.

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.

I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

I'm from a Gypsy background!

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

Before doing 'Midnight's Children,' I didn't really have a chance to explore my Indian side. The Indian side of my heritage was always present, but it did not particularly define my identity. Being English was more an identity-defining status. I was born and brought up in London. Yes, my father is Parsi.