Quotes About Roots

If you [don't] know history, then [you don't] know anything. You [are] a leaf that [doesn't] know it [is] part of a tree.

Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree.

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

The youngest of ten children, Mary Anne MacLeod was born in 1912 in her parents' home in the village of Tong on the rugged Scottish Isle of Lewis, which is closer to Iceland than London. She was descended from two clans, the Smiths and MacLeods, with deep roots in the Hebrides.

Understanding the competitive forces, and their underlying causes, reveals the roots of an industry's current profitability while providing a framework for anticipating and influencing competition (and profitability) over time. P. 26

Perhaps the home I am homesick for is still there, after all.

One avoids becoming a Tolkien clone precisely by returning to the same roots that inspired The Lord of the Rings.

We own the country we grow up in, or we are aliens and invaders.

American histories were the same; they had these mad ideas about how Parliament worked, or what people really meant when they said A, B, or C. All my life, I felt simultaneously deracinated and rooted in both places, and now it's my greatest strength: I'm culturally bilingual.

I don't add any deliberate nuances to the way I sing. I've seen so much and been all over the world, but I'm glued to my roots, and that comes across.

My mother is Lithuanian Australian, and my father was born in Singapore, but he is Pakistani / Saudi Arabian.

I didn't grow up with classical music. My father was a folk music singer.

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

There is a conception about me that I am a playback singer and I sing for albums or for films only, but my roots are in bhajans. Even when I was in school, I used to win competitions for ghazals and bhajans.

The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.

My parents, Aparesh and Bansari Lahiri were very famous singers from Kolkata.

I listened to a lot of what my grandparents listened to: George Jones, Johnny Cash - a lot of old country singers. Patsy Cline.

More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.

I can't name a single issue with roots in race that doesn't have economic implications, and I cannot think of a single economic issue that doesn't have racial implications. The idea that we have to separate them out and choose one is a con.

The conspiracy theory of the Jew as the hypnotic conspirator, the duplicitous manipulator, the sinister puppeteer is one with ancient roots and a bloody history.

Ultimately, my connection to my Indian-ness comes back to my mom and dad. They would all tell me and my siblings stories about their life in India, so it was very close to my two brothers and my sister and I.

Now that I live in Los Angeles, if I meet somebody from Detroit, it's like there's this brother- or sisterhood, where we're real folks.

I'm very proud of my sisters and everything they've accomplished and done. I'm very proud of where I came from.

My older brothers and sisters have kids and families.