Quotes About Roots

I come from a long line of saloon keepers and proselytizers, and I draw from both sides.

All of my relatives on both sides of my family are from Allentown.

I have Irish on both sides of my family.

My father was born and raised in Sierra Leone, and my mom was from Bermuda.

I never want to lose sight of my roots... A lot of artists want the riches and the fame. I want to tell stories you can put into the context of your life.

I started out in gospel music. A lot of people don't know that I started out in gospel music, and I've never lost sight of it.

Don't lose sight of what made you who you are.

When I moved to Dallas, I had two big goals. The first, of course, had to do with basketball. I came here to work hard and earn the respect of the fans. The second goal was more personal. I wanted to put down roots in Dallas. That was one of the upsides of signing a four-year deal.

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

I'm European, and my roots are in Europe. But Boston is one of the most, in a way, European American cities. And I think I'll find a lot of similarities, historically and architecturally and tradition-wise.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

I'm just a simple country girl.

I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?

My homies in Gadsden aren't as exposed as I am culturally, which is awesome - that's why I love going home. I'm in the kitchen with people who don't know anything but the simple life, what's important to them, and what's dope.

I'm from Pennsylvania, and that love for the simplicity of life never left me.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'

Gobartes the son of Artabazos

Ho sentito la terra del mio paese mandare un lungo sospiro sotto i loro piedi e mi sono scese le lacrime.

I dreamed of my grandparents living there as though they always had with their habits, their rituals, their ways of speaking. With the illusory sense I had as a girl, when my own world was so fragile, that they always would be there. That they would always welcome me and care for me. That they were a place I could always go. A homeland

If you don't know where your're going, you should know where you came from.

If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from.

you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from.

If you don't know where you're going you should know where you come from

In my opinion Christ had been a good Jew, not "liberal" in the modern sense of extending a credo to its outer limits in the name of freedom, but "radical" in the original sense of cutting back the credo to its roots to rediscover its true spirit.