Quotes About Roots

My family were from Jamaica.

I was born in Georgia. That's where my grandparents-and all my people-are from. But my family traveled a great deal because my dad was in the army as a helicopter pilot.

When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

In my very own self, I am part of my family.

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.

Yeah, my family is of Indian heritage.

I have 52 first cousins. My mom and dad were the only two to move to North America, so I've got deep family there, but I'm a California kid.

Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.

I lived in New York for maybe a year and a half, from '95 to '97, but I live in Dallas. My whole family is there.

I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.

I like to think I'm very grounded. I'm very grounded in my family. I'm very grounded in my community.

I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it. The only thing I know about it is what I picked up from my aunts and parents.

I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there.

Im from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

My parents were born and raised in Iowa and my two brothers were born in Iowa before my family moved to California where I was born so I still really feel like I have those Midwestern roots.

I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree.

India, to some extent, courses through my blood. My father was brought up there, and my grandfather served there, and so on. We have a very strong family affinity for the place.

I grew up listening to gospel. That was the only thing that I had reference to because that was what my family was involved with.

My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.

I'm really in touch with my Italian roots. My mom's whole side of the family is there.

When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.