Quotes About Roots

How can we possibly say the root of the Canadian approach to citizenship and immigration comes from Europe or the United States? I mean, we just don't do the same things. What I've said, very simply, is that unlike other colonies, for the first 250 years approximately, indigenous people were either the dominant force or an equal force.

I wanted to have a home where I could go home and unlock my door and go in and be settled. I was tired of being a gypsy.

We are going back to our roots by cultivating new unsigned talent who otherwise might go unnoticed.

This type of gathering is unprecedented. The time has come for Christians to publicly affirm our Jewish roots, distinctions and oneness in Jesus Christ.

Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.

There is an unspoken feminist layer to Katana. She's an aggressive modern woman with traditional Japanese roots. She was in love with her sword because she believed it contained her husband.

My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors at my high school that I really got my roots in being a black American, which is a distinctly different identity and experience.

I'll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

Every ethnic group has a mythology... Until 'Roots'... there was nothing in the popular culture to refute the paragraph in elementary school history class that said, 'Slaves picked the cotton, were happy and life wasn't so bad.'

I had a very unusual childhood in that I grew up on the Stanford campus and I never moved.

I'm a simple man. Grew up in a small town. Came from humble beginnings. No silver spoon.

I'm from the middle of nowhere. I had to drive four hours just to find a city. It's a different upbringing. It was perfect for me. I love the small-town feel, where you know everybody.

I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural.

I've come from a grounded family and had a good upbringing.

My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.

When I started soul-searching, I tapped into the old me and what I grew up around. I learned a lot about myself, and it really made me appreciate my upbringing.

I had a very modest upbringing.

I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.

I had a very good upbringing, which I'm eternally grateful for.

Brass bands are part of my upbringing. Brass band records were among the first records I listened to.

I had a very traditional upbringing. Family has always been really important to me.

I had a good upbringing.

I think my feet were on the ground, and I had good family around me. It comes down to who you are and your upbringing.

For me socialism has never been an intellectual pursuit. It comes from my upbringing and experience.