Quotes About Roots

One of the reasons I moved back to Brooklyn is to get to hang out with the guys I've known since we were 12, 13 years old. Having that sense of community is incredibly important to me.

My mom grew up in Brooklyn.

My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.

I was born and brought up in Ambala.

I am born and brought up in Kota, Rajasthan.

I was born and brought up in Vizag 'til 12th Class.

Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.

I was raised in Brussels as a Belgian but, at the same time, feeling that I wasn't necessarily from here.

All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can't leave you, and there's always that longing.

I think any smart businessman would go where the money is bigger, but I also feel like you don't forget your roots either.

I'm still so grounded and so regimented, too. I've developed myself for such a long time - my characteristics and who I am - that if I try to change myself, my origins will pull me back.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

When people ask me where I'm from, I say I'm from the Sudan. But when they ask what my hometown is, I say London. It's where I lived, and it's where my whole family lived.

I'm from South Sudan, that is where my heart will always be.

At the end of the day, I'm from Canada, and so there will never be a time when I'm suddenly not Canadian.

'The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about how my own family had got its foothold in Australia.

I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today.

For me, I wear a suit because I need to remember what's happened before me.

As long as I'm not living out of a suitcase, I'm happy.

I like to move around. It suits me. I grew up in Wiltshire on a farm, and that's the only place I call home.

I was born in San Bernardino in summer of '91 and grew up in Riverside, San Bernardino, and Victorville.

Not many countries establish a prize for peace. The Seoul Peace Prize has its roots in the 1988 Summer Olympics when this country opened its doors to people and athletes from more than 160 countries. Korea did so in part because it believes in the power of sports for peace and development.

I was actually born in Miami. We would spend the summers there growing up, so it's like my second home.

I live in the house my great-grandfather moved to in 1865... I spent all my summers here as a kid haying with my grandfather, and it was my favorite place in the world.