Quotes About Roots

I'm as Scottish as they come.

I still feel very Scottish.

My mom came to the U.S. very young, and then she married very young. But she was never American. She was always Scottish and would make sure that I knew that I was, too.

My dad's Scottish, and I always used to say I was, too.

Whether I live there again or not, Seattle will always be my home.

Seattle is my home.

Seattle has always been home.

I grew up in Seattle.

We still have our home in Seattle. The kids are there. The grandkids are there.

Oh, I grew up in Seattle.

In college, you always say you're looking for a home. I found my home in Seattle before I did in college. So that's why I say I love it here.

I come from a secular background.

I owe so much to my parents, to my family.

When I was 9, we moved to Osseo, Wis., where we owned a couple of hundred acres. My father was well respected in town.

On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.

It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto anymore, but every time I go back, I'm still seeing the same things that I lived.

As a callow 18-year-old leaving for college, I'd seen my home town as a mere launching pad for a life in worldlier locales, a place to be from rather than a place to be.

Many for whom the stage has been the launch pad to cinema have forgotten their roots. I don't intend to, ever.

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father had already found his place, but for us, for my mother, it was very difficult to get our bearings.

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.

Paisley offered me and my family a life, way back, and it has continued to do so.

My whole identity comes from Pakistan.

I am from Chicago, but my dad is from Karachi, Pakistan, and my mom is from New Delhi, India. So, I've got a little Paki-Indie fusion going on here.