Quotes About Roots

It's strange; when I was younger and people would ask, 'Where are you from?', I'd say, 'West Africa', which was odd because I'm obviously not African, but it was my home.

Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.

I think it's bad for fellas when they lose their mothers. Mine was such a character. Oh it was sad, really sad. And, with her gone, the family home was gone, so what was left of any roots I had were completely dug up.

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.

I loved growing up in Ohio.

For some reason, I always have an allegiance to Ohio. I had a great childhood, and to return to it is very comforting.

Growing up in rural Ohio, I knew my way around a double-wide pretty well.

Ohio is my home, always. I'm a homegirl. Ohio is my home. Ohio is my first love.

I kind of had that Parma, Ohio, mentality that after high school, you go to college. Then after college, you get a job; then you get a family. And after that, you just stick around Parma.

I can go to all these cool places around the world, but when we land at YYZ, I'm like, 'Yes! It's flat. It's concrete. I'm okay with this; my people are here.'

Growing up in Oklahoma the way I did, and being raised the way I was raised by my parents, gave me such a strong foundation to go out into the world and fly, so to speak, the way I was able to do.

Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!

I have family in Oklahoma City.

I'm happy in Oklahoma. It's closer to family. Nobody expects anything of you there.

When people ask me where I'm from I say I'm from Oklahoma.

The people that we met when we lived in Cincinnati, the Midwestern values - I'm from Oklahoma, my wife's from Green Bay - we felt at home in the year we were here.

Where I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, it wasn't the south-east and it wasn't the deep south and it wasn't quite the south-west either.

I was born in Oklahoma.

I grew up in Oklahoma.

I don't really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that's closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.

My grandparents from the old country, Latvia, were all musical on my father's side.

I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.