Quotes About Roots

When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family.

Every time I introduce myself, I'm reminded where I came from.

My dad does a good job of reminding me where I came from.

It's where you're from - it's your roots - and that's why I like to get back to Nacogdoches in the offseason and hang out with my family. To me, it keeps me grounded and reminds me of how far I've come.

I've said in the primary race repeatedly that a Labour Party that I lead would be a true red Labour Party, be very clear about its social democratic roots and its social democratic agenda.

We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.

I do know where I'm from, and I'm proud to be an Arkansan and to represent country music.

I stand for the Midwest. That's why the album's titled 'M.O.,' 'cause I'm still holding it down like that. My friends and family all call me Mo, so it's kind of like really representing where I'm from and me at the same time.

Everyone in the league would say that they would love to go back home and play for their city. It's just something about representing home.

Australia is my birth home, so it will always be a home of some sort. But I'm very happy, very pleased to be representing Great Britain. That is my home, and that is where my heart is. That is where I grew up, essentially. So when people ask me where I'm from, where is home, that's where it is.

Who I am at the core and what I think represents me is really reflected in my family.

I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like I'm always leaving my home. That's part of the formula. I love the Dominican Republic. I go back all the time. I love New Jersey. Go back all the time.

For my first three books the setting (or place if you will) has always been a given - N.J. and the Dominican Republic and some N.Y.C. - so from one perspective you could say that the place in my work always comes first.

I was born and raised in Pocatello, Idaho.

I will forever and always identify with Scarborough - no matter where I move.

I'll always identify as a Chicagoan; if it wasn't so cold, I'd be there forever.

I'm a first-generation kid in this country. I so identify with America and its culture. I'm a citizen, I was born here. I'm American. At the same time, like most first-generation kids, I have this other identity to another country back home, which is India.

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

I am a South Tyrolean. I identify with this land.

I've always been really interested in how people's identities are shaped by where they come from and how they want to get away from where they come from.

It's our roots that really give us our identity.

A lot of my identity as an Aboriginal person is about family.

If I could go anywhere in the world, that place would be home.

If I could, I would like my son to study in Jamshedpur, where I did my schooling.