Quotes About Roots

My sister Farah and me, we come from a very middle-class family.

You can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest out of the boy.

I'm proud to come from the Midwest and that's where I'm comfortable at.

I've completely embraced life in Florida after growing up in the Midwest. This is home for me.

I'm from the Midwest.

Like many of us in Arizona, I wasn't born here - I'm a product of the Midwest and the working class.

I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.

I like healthful foods, but I'm from the Midwest, so I like food that's been around longer.

My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.

I feel very Midwestern at my core.

I've got German, Cornish and Scottish ancestry. It might help explain my affinity for forests, the sea, and fatty foods.

My family is very much at home here in Milan.

I was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, about 20 miles from Kalamazoo. I lived around there for about seven years. That community is one that I really care about.

In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.

My mother is from Compton, California, but my father is from Hayneville, Alabama, and that's less than 20 miles from Selma.

Being from Milwaukee is a badge of honor.

Milwaukee, man... it's home.

My father, Dines Pontoppidan, belonged to an old family of clergymen and was himself a minister.

I come from a lineage of ministers.

I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.

I don't really think of Minnesota when I think of home.

I grew up in Minnesota.

The roots of discrimination, conflict, and war are not to be found outside us. They are within our own way of thinking and looking at the world. The real enemy is our ignorance, our attachment to views, and our wrong perceptions.

He was Sudeten German—Arkansas to their Manhattan, Liverpool to their Cambridge.