Quotes About Roots

Coming back, Utah just felt like home.

Of course a trade with Utah would make me happy. I grew up there.

I see myself as an utterly unchanged Perth dude who likes sport as much as I like music and who just likes my family.

In Northern Ireland, I truly, effortlessly, knew who I was. I knew where I belonged. I felt completely and utterly secure.

If you get into really learning about the roots of monotheism, it was utterly a radical cultural moment. The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it.

Kunta Kinte is NOT an American, and he utterly rejects that idea at every turn.

Anybody who thinks the lute just came out of a vacuum doesn't know the history.

My knowledge of my ancestry, like a lot of black people not living in Africa today, is very vague.

My parents moved from ranch to ranch, valley to valley, town to town, but our roots in Fowler never really faded. For me, it's a place of history, stories and songs, not just facts and figures.

I grew up in Southern California, Simi Valley. I've lived in the same house all my life.

All my father's stories were about our mountain, our valley, our jagged little patch of Idaho.

I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.

I never grew up in the Valley. I lived in Compton/Gardena my whole life.

The iPhone will forever be associated with the inventive genius of Steve Jobs and Silicon Valley. But the roots of innovation can be traced back - from one genius to another, at least - back to the genius who put the phone in iPhone: Alexander Graham Bell.

I moved to L.A. when I was, like, 6 months old. I was born in Georgia 'cause my dad was going to college at the University of Georgia for music. Then we moved to the Valley, and my dad was a songwriter out here.

No matter how many times I was tempted with fame and vanity I always go back to Valley Stream, which was always about community and family.

My grandmother valued her Southern roots, folk culture, and healing.

My values stemmed from the family. Anything I have achieved in life has been rooted in my upbringing.

I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.

Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

We were all nomads once, and crossed the deserts and the seas on tracks that could not be detected, but were clear to those who knew the way. Since settling down and rooting like trees, but without the ability to make use of the wind to scatter our seed, we have found only infection and discontent.

Here I am. Not leaving any more. Home.

Perhaps I wasn't a child of God at all, but the daughter of a Frenchman.

The place where you live - your home - is one of the most important things in a body's life.