Quotes About Roots

The failure of the U.S.'s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.'s total ignorance of things on the ground, of the countries that they fiddle with.

I still think of myself as from Illinois.

I had a chance to choose a couple different places and, well, I grew up - I was a small-town kid from Illinois, so No. 1, just trying to win a championship for my home state.

I grew up in Illinois.

That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.

It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.

I was 7 years old when 'Roots' was first broadcast, and my parents gathered all us kids around the TV to learn about how we got here. But it wasn't until I sat down and immersed myself in the research that I got the barest inkling of what it meant to be a slave.

I was born to Chinese immigrant parents, who came from Taiyuan.

My mother is basically an immigrant because she came from Tonga.

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

I'm the granddaughter of immigrants.

I'm the son of immigrants.

I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.

It all started with the most basic level of Uta Hagen, right at the beginning. I'm like, 'Really? I came to grad school; I'm going to do the 'Respect for Acting'?' And I realized the importance of that, because it was really to just get you to get rid of everything. Get rid of everything you've learned and just start from the bottom up.

I spent time living in Ethiopia, learning about the cultural importance of coffee and its roots in Ethiopia.

It is important to know where you come from.

It's an important thing to remember where you came from.

Be proud of your heritage, and don't be discouraged from the improbable.

In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to deal with things I knew about and where I came from.

I've still got to go and see the world, but I will come back to Australia in the end, when I have my family, in many moons to come.

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.

People seem ready for a more in-depth idea of folk music, culture and history.

I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.