Quotes About Roots

There was something about the people you grew up around, the ones you'd seen throughout your childhood, the folks you couldn't remember not knowing.

THE OLD COUNTRY, 1731 F

You'd never care to plant some roots in society, I suppose," mused the other.

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Every time I come back to the Twin Cities, I feel like I'm coming back home.

In radio I had one, maybe two people who cared about getting it done. I'd really be a loser if I forgot where I came from. So I show them the love. And how hard is it really to be interested in someone's life?

I was practically born in Cameroon; my family moved there when I was two weeks old.

This is the bunch of songs I did first, and it's just the type of thing I do. I am a Carter Family girl, so the record is book-ended with Carter Family songs.

I still dabble in different types of music, but I'm sticking to my Country roots.

I come from a typical family.

Though born in Los Angeles, U.S.A., I am a typical Tamil girl.

I'm from a typical middle-class family in Delhi, with one of the most down-to-earth childhoods.

I love a lot of these older actresses, like Cicely Tyson, who played Kunta Kinte's mother in 'Roots.' She was really great, and I like seeing her because every movie she plays, she plays a strong character. As a kid, she was really inspiring to me.

The UK has no input in Afrobeat. Let me make myself very clear. The UK has no influence in the creation or naming or anything that has to do with Afrobeat' roots or beginnings.

I was born in a big city - Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine - but when I was a child, my father moved us back to his homeland in Minsk.

I have three homes: my Belarusian land, the homeland of my father, where I have lived my whole life; Ukraine, the homeland of my mother, where I was born; and Russia's great culture, without which I cannot imagine myself. All are very dear to me.

You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl and ultimately not the girl out of Texas.

I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.

Far too many athletes have been unable to let go of their troubled roots or just have failed to fully understand their new lives and what's expected of them.

...the world was trying to change its old face and show its underbelly of earth and roots.

Following 9/11, intelligence indicated numerous links between al-Qa'eda and Algeria. It began to look as though the roots of jihad could be traced back to the war in Algeria that began 50 years ago.

A man without any history is like a tree without roots

If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.

Home is where one starts from.