Quotes About Roots

My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.

Sure, there were people from Missouri and Illinois who grew up Cardinals fans and migrated to New York for work or love. Cardinals fans congregate periodically at Foley's near Herald Square to root for the team of their childhood, up there on the TV screen.

I've lived in New York City all my life. I love New York City; I've never moved from New York City. Have I ever thought about moving out of New York? Yeah, sure. I need about $10 million to do it right, though.

I've lived in other cities - Rome, Dublin, Mexico City - but I was born in New York City, and I always lived in those other places as a New Yorker.

I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.

New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.

I am a real New Yorker... I didn't go to Harvard, I didn't go to Yale... I rooted for the Yankees; I didn't root for the Boston Red Sox.

I'm a fourth-generation New Yorker. My family has been in New York for many, many years.

My family goes way back in New York. So I am a New Yorker; I feel like a New Yorker. It's in my bones.

My mother was originally from Yorkshire and I spent a lot of my childhood there.

I'm such an odd mix of things. My grandfather was Indian: I've got more family living in India than I do in the U.K. My old man was East London. I was brought up in Yorkshire. My great-grandfather was Irish.

The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

Anyone who has been born in Yorkshire is very proud of it. It's something that's embedded in your character.

I grew up in North Yorkshire, but now London is home.

Yorkshire is so much part of me.

In my bones, I feel like a Scot. I always have. My mum's from Doncaster, so whatever that is as a combination of Scotland and Yorkshire. It isn't southern.

Everyone's always shocked that I'm still based in Yorkshire, but going home there is my sanctuary. Home is where the heart is, and my mother, sister and brother are there, and my partner.

I'm the only one of the family born in Yorkshire. My aunt came down first with her husband and told my mum there was plenty of work in Wakefield. My dad was going to go to Australia, but mum said no, we'll go to Wakefield.

I knew dad was born in Yorkshire and mum was from Mountain Ash.

Straight up, I'm from Waldorf, Maryland, you guys. Let's not forget that.

My roots were in acting. That's all I wanted to be. Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

I had a fascination with the roots of African American music. That would have been my first education in music. I had a real passion for it. I wanted to play it, sing it. I could sing at a young age, but I started to teach myself bass guitar and started writing when I was 15.