Quotes About Roots

I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.

I think my grandmother was one of my biggest influences.

You don't have to play the blues to play rock 'n' roll, but that's where, somewhere along the line, your influences came from. I mean, I don't care where you got it from. If you got it from Eric Clapton, he got it from the blues.

My philosophy as a filmmaker is to inform and entertain at the same time. And when I went away from documentaries into miniseries like 'Roots,' I did the reverse. Instead of just entertaining, I want to inform at the same time.

History informs where we are and how we got here.

I'm an inner city man, born and bred.

Punjab is inseparable from my personality as I have spent a lot of time in my growing up years here.

My roots really instilled Chicago values in me.

I was born in London. In a lot of ways I'm English, but I have this Iranianness, this culture instilled by my parents, by my family.

You always want to know what happened before you. It's a human instinct to know where you came from and what preceded you.

The reason why Botswana has done very well is because it's the only black African country which went back to its roots and built upon its own indigenous institutions.

My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.

People of Maharashtra are close to my heart, and this is where I became who I am, and this has been instrumental in my formative years.

I don't come from an intellectual family.

I am an African. I live there and my children live there, and as far as I understand, they intend to go on living there.

Having gratitude for being alive, being able to experience an inner delight in the moment, is one of the essential roots of happiness.

And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.

There is nothing like the land you belong to claiming you back. But everywhere the earth is the same. -Old David

The importance not just of history, but of roots - that a writer must have then to nurture, to remember if he is to endure.

The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.

If lilies would grow backwards, if roses would grow backwards, if all those roots could see the stars & the dead not close their eyes, we would become like swans.

Vuestras lágrimas son lágrimas de los ojos nada más, y las mías vendrán cuando yo esté sola, de las plantas de mis pies, de mis raíces, y serán más ardientes que la sangre.

J'ai rêvé d'être un électron libre mais on ne peut pas se couper éternellement de ses racines.

Habits, places and faces grew into you over time, like tree roots burrowing into stone work.