Quotes About Roots

My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.

I'm real conscious about money still. That's how I came up and you can't shake that.

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.

A lack of money is never, ever, ever a problem. A lack of money is merely a symptom of what is going on underneath.

Poland and my roots are very important for me. That's why I decided to make a feature film in Poland, and with only Polish money.

Use 'Why?' to help you follow the breadcrumbs back to the source of the problem.

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose sigh is the wind, paint us a rainbow without any end.

My mother gave me one piece of advice that stuck with me. She said don't forget where you came from.

I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

She's descended from a long line her mother listened to.

My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.

Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.

The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.

I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.