Quotes About Roots

Oh yeah, I'm an Essex boy and proud of it.

Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it.

Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.

My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.

I act most like myself... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.

I was born near Bucharest, but my parents came to France a year later. We moved back to Romania when I was thirteen, and my world was shattered. I hated Bucharest, its society, and its mores - its anti-Semitism for example.

I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I'm sorry, I don't rep California.

I've studied my culture deeply and I'm very aware of my tradition.

I'm a big tradition guy. If you love this country and study history, then you will love Boston.

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

Music always lived with me, like a family tradition.

I still have deep respect for the evangelical tradition and feel, in many ways, close to the Baptist roots of my childhood, although I've been an Episcopalian throughout my adult life and a regular churchgoer.

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

It's good to be progressive, but don't shun the good things about tradition.

Baseball is a game of tradition. It lives, in large measure, on its past.

Today we take New England clam chowder as something traditional that makes our roots as American cooking very solid, with a lot of foundation. But the first person who decided to mix potatoes and clams and bacon and cream, in his own way 100 to 200 years ago, was a modernist.

Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

My childhood was very, very, very, very traditional.

I'm a small-town boy who comes from a traditional family on a tiny island called Belitung. I may not know where I'm going, but I'll always know where to come home to.