Quotes About Roots

My upbringing saved me.

My upbringing in Rampur has contributed a lot to what I am today.

I feel very American, but my upbringing was quite the opposite.

I was very blue collar, and I had a great upbringing.

The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.

The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted, and there's so much about our whole legacy that was stolen and that we lost in the Transatlantic slave trade that we'll never find out.

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

I'm an upstate New York lifer.

My mother was from upstate New York; she's of Irish and German descent. My father was from Ghana.

The Indian heritage plays a very important role in my career, I have always wanted my Indian roots to be with me. I was also influenced by the urban culture around me back in the day.

My mother tongue is Punjabi, but my first language is Urdu, which was the case with the people in undivided Punjab.

Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus.

The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard work familynever forgetting where we came from.

Everything I have today is because of Africa, I was born here, went to school here, I work here and I'm achieving some level of financial comfort here

All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce.

Most of us forget the basics and wonder why the specifics don't work.

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

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

Farmers are always conservative. They stick to what they have learned from their fathers and from their grandfathers. This is the same all over the globe.

The two lines from 'Roots' that stick out to me are, 'You no more in Africa. You in America now,' and what I said after Kunta escaped: 'What is it like to be free, Kunta? It must be something.'

I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.

It is very disappointing to see the Punjabi music scene of today. The lyrical quality has deteriorated; it is only people like Sartaaj and Gurdas Maan Ji who are sticking to their roots.

I'm sticking true to my roots.

I came from the Sticks, literally. I grew up in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, just outside Athens, Georgia.