Quotes About Roots

I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.

I spent some special years in my hometown of El Paso.

'Donde Estaras,' it is like a classic reggaeton, and we just added some Southern spice to bring it to 2018. But I wanted to go back to the roots of reggaeton, that type of reggaeton that makes you just feel good. You don't know what we are saying but that OK because 'Donde Estas' is where are you at but 'Donde Estaras' is where are you going to be.

I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.

I'm a very spiritual person, and proud of my Mormon roots.

I really got back to my New Orleans roots - my grandfather played with Fats Domino. We had to leave after Katrina, but I feel like, spiritually, I'm back there.

I learned Punjabi before I learned English in spite of the fact that I was born in Canada.

Change does not come easily to our party, in spite of its roots in our country's radical tradition.

America is a transplanted place. Families split and people travel 1,000 miles for a job, but the South is not yet like that. People live for three or four generations in the same town, even the same house.

You can never split yourself from the family you were born into.

When I was growing up, we spoke Egyptian, we ate Egyptian food, we had other Egyptian friends. It was my father's preference.

My father is from Brooklyn, but we spoke Dutch at home.

My grandparents were born in England but spoke German and had a German name.

I don't think I've ever spoken to anyone who's told me that the story of 'Roots' isn't important.

And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.

Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.

I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper.

I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.