Quotes About Roots

Being in Jamaica, I feel comfortable there.

I want to go to Jamaica, actually. My whole family's from there, so I'd like to go there.

My father's from Jamaica.

Bob's whole life is about Africa. It is not about Jamaica.

If you want to go way way back, then I'm Scottish. My great great grandfather was Scottish, James Gordon Harriott, and a white Scotsman too.

Our family is fortunate to have a well-documented history in a book titled 'The Flores Family - 1725 to 1963' by James F. Padgett.

Much like Jennifer Lopez or Ricky Martin who might have started with a hardcore Latin fan-base, I'll always remember what my foundation was.

The majority of my family is in Jersey.

North Jersey is one of the best places on earth. I love living there. I want to raise my kids there. It's my favorite state in the country.

Really, I'm just a simple girl from Jersey.

I'm a girl from Jersey.

I miss Jersey so much; I'm really connected to it. I love the big malls, the diners.

Sometimes I get the bug to live in London for a year, or something like that, and maybe I will. But New Jersey's home.

You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.

I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.

I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.

My father's Jewish, so my world is Jewish whenever I go home.

No one in my family is Jewish; no one was raised as a Jew, me included.

I come from French Cajun Jewish people.

I'm delighted to be returning to my California roots and joining Google.

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pilllow.

To have come from Ireland no matter how long ago is to be of Ireland in some part forever.

I must be an emotional archaeologist because I keep looking for the roots of things, particularly the roots of behavior and why I feel certain ways about certain things.