Quotes About Roots

Food is a way to explore culture and ground the story in a specific time and place. I still remember the meals and snacks from my first novel, 'Shug': pork chops and applesauce and Coca-Cola and peanuts, which are very Southern. When a character has roots elsewhere, food is a way to connect with home and another culture.

What can I say? I'm a Southern girl.

I come from a family that raised me with good southern values.

I've always been drawn back to the South, whether it's Southern California or in Florida, where I grew up, and I wanted to write a song about that.

I came from a big family... a big family of Southerners.

I'm sort of a Southerner because those are my roots, but my parents are from Iowa.

I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.

When people ask me where my roots are, I look down at my feet, and I see the roots of my soul grasping the earth. They are here... in the Southwest... I still live in New Mexico.

I grew up in Somerset in southwest England.

I grew up in Georgia, in a small town in the southwest corner of Georgia, actually, called Sylvester.

I am from Brookhaven, a small town in Southwest Mississippi.

When we were children, we were told that we have a motherland, and that motherland was Spain. However, we have discovered later, in our lives, that as a matter of fact, we have several motherlands. And one of the greatest motherlands of all is, no doubt, Africa.

I was born in Spain.

My family came over from Spain about nine generations ago. I was born in San Diego, but by the time I was four days old, I was on a flight back to Spain because that's where my family was living at the time.

You can't love a city if you have no memories burried there.

Home is where you feel loved, and homeland is where you love.

There is a love that binds us allIt's in our blood, it's who we areand it's nested in the branches of this treeand it's rooted in the Earth where we keepall of our stories

...But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.

The best story to tell your kids is that of your own family.

Home is where I built my life.- Henry Morbower

Life is strange, and often imponderable! Both the successes and the failures have their roots in simple experiences. Mr.

Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.

He had a winged nature; she was rather of the vegetable kind, and could hardly be kept long alive, if drawn up by the roots. Thus it happened that the relation heretofore existing between her brother and herself was changed.

You might think your own personal apple has fallen far from the tree, but that tree has roots you don't see until you trip over them.