Quotes About Roots

If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

I do not have to look for credentials for my Polishness and for my patriotism. I'm a Pole. The chronicles of my family go back - as far back as the 13th century.

I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.

I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

Like my father I, too, was born in Central America - Nebraska.

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.

My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.

My father is Jaime Rodriguez from San Antonio, Texas, and I've got one whole half of my family that's Mexican through and through.

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.

Life is a tree with different branches of experience, different leaves of stories, different flowers of feelings, different roots of teachings of gaining and losing and different seeds of new beginning.

Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.

There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story...because hers is where yours begins.

NEVER forget where you came from it might save you from where you could end up.

Family is not just a word. It's who you are, where you came from and where you will always belong.

We can remember the truth because it bears a name, has roots in the past, but an improvised lie is quickly forgotten.

Mucho de lo suyo pudo desmoronarse, menos las cosas que le dieron identidad.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.