Quotes About Roots

Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You've got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn't going to work.

It is the little platoons, rather than the great society, which command attention in this new version of the national past; the spirit of place rather than that of the common law or the institutions of representative government.

Richmond was my birthplace, but it was merely my launching pad, no home.

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

When people ask where I'm from, I tell them Washington, because that's where I feel the most comforted by the people.

I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.

I know that my heart and my family are here in California, not in Washington, D.C.

More than any other place, New York is where I felt I belonged. I prefer the Lower East Side to any place on the planet. I can be who I am there, and I couldn't do that anywhere I lived as a child. I never fit in when I lived in California, even though that's where my roots are.

I am from Pomona, California. I was born in Los Angeles.

I'm really taken with 'Calling Me Home' by Alice Gerrard.

When I was a kid, we didn't really leave Cambridge, which was the town where I grew up in.

Well, my parents live in Cambridge, Maryland.

Remember where you came from.

I'm from Cameroon, Central Africa.

I'm told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.

I'm from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and my family is Punjabi.

Ever since I was little, when I moved to Canada, Canada has been my home.

Canada will always be my home.

I'm a first-generation Canadian.

I'm a Canadian. I've always been a Canadian.

The core of who I am is Canadian.

I wasn't raised inside of Canadian baseball really.

Carol City crazy, man, but it's home at the same time.

I was a Panthers fan growing up, being close to Carolina.