Quotes About Roots

We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.

My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.

Pittsburgh's home. This is where it all started. This is always going to be home. I always have to get back to Pittsburgh and get some work done.

I think I'ma make every hood proud. Everybody that ever seen me come up, know what I came from, know how I came up, know where I started. I feel like I'ma just make everybody proud.

Just going to Africa is amazing; it all comes back to the motherland. It's pretty much where everything started.

Every league starts with homegrown players.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

I'm from Oakland and San Francisco, so I feel like the Pacific Northwest starts there and goes north - so, it's home to me.

I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

My blood, my roots, my soul is in the state of Montana.

My sister and I were born in Chile and raised in the States, and my little brothers were born in the States and raised in Chile after my parents moved back in 1995.

In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.

So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.

I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

I'll stay in Memphis.

Johnny Depp gave me the best advice. He said, 'Keep your feet on the ground. Stay grounded. Remember where you came from.'

I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.

It's not like if I play in big places I won't be happy. But I don't want to start adapting to what's in style to make my music. I want to stay true to my roots, to keep making the music I love, that comes from my soul. And if there are people who want to listen to it, I'm happy.

The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me.

I don't live in L.A. I actually live in Atlanta, Georgia. After I graduated from Spelman, I just stayed and never left. And I love it.

I could have moved anywhere I wanted to. But for family reasons, I stayed in the Midwest.

I don't believe in the whole thing of staying anywhere - we are meant to explore, to travel, and meant to spread our roots.

I like staying in the hood.