Quotes About Roots

I belong to a purely agricultural family from a rural background.

I was raised in a very blue-collar family.

There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

When you're a kid, you listen to what your family is listening to. For my family, it was bluegrass.

I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.

I get a lot of my inspiration from my family, but I never got to meet my dad's dad.

I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.

People ask 'How do you get so eh-ish?' I don't know if it's just because so much of my family still lives in Canada and I finished studies up there.

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.

Without my family, I would be nothing.

My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.

Family is what grounds you.

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Three-quarters of my family is Irish. Of course, the "Kazee" is not.

He who is not proud of his own blood is not worthy of it.

The nature of fashion is family. You see that at almost every house, it was owned first by a family. It wasn't owned by a bank.

I am proud of my heritage and my family.

I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

We ought to encourage our children to know their relatives. We need to talk of them, make effort to correspond with them, visit them, join family organizations, etc.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.

I'm from such an old family, it's been condemned.