Quotes About Roots

I went to college in North Carolina, so something about being in the East Coast is home for me.

I'm a North Carolina native. Grew up in North Carolina.

I was born in the Northeast, and I have Midwestern parents.

I have always thought of myself as being Northern Irish because that's what I am.

There is something quintessentially northern in my DNA, even though I've lived in London since I was 18.

I love coming back around Northern California.

I've got my roots in Northern Ireland - my biological father's side of the family were from Belfast.

I love going back to Northern Ireland.

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

My ancestors are Highland Scots, and my father's home in north Alabama is so much like northwest Arkansas. I have the same allergies in both places.

I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian.

I get very sentimental, I get very nostalgic, and when I live in a place, I instantly put down way too many roots.

I've always been a bit of a lost soul, and I think that goes back to me being adopted and not knowing my roots.

I consider myself a jazz singer. I think I stick to the roots of improvisation, singing in front of the beat, behind the beat, playing with notes and harmonies.

The notion of someone who is fitting in or trying to become part of a larger family... It's hard to separate that from my own Jewish roots.

My kids grew up here. My son and daughter both went to Notre Dame.

If the story-teller is to nourish the roots of his culture, society must set him free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

I'll always be a small-town boy from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

Many of the novelists I admire never left their hometown. Look at Flannery O'Connor. So many of the great Russians never left Russia. Shakespeare never left England. The list goes on.

Novels are the means by which we can escape the moment we are imprisoned in, but at the same time, the roots of a novel are in the world in which it is written. We write, and we read, to understand the world we live in.

Everybody nowadays rhymes, but out of the people that really, really do it well, it's still a small community of artists. We all tend to be in the same circles - people like my Wu-Tang brothers, or Black Thought from The Roots.

I think nowadays it's very important to re-connect with ourselves and our roots.

'Cullum' is Scottish, but I'm nowhere near Scottish. My mother is Burmese, and my father is of German, Jewish, English ancestry.

American? Indian? I don't know what these words mean. In Italy, it is all about blood, family, where you come from. I'm asked where I am from. I'm from nowhere; I always was, but now I am happy knowing it.