Quotes About Roots

I think we really forget how connected we are to the past.

I go to Scotland maybe three times a year, and I love it. When I'm at home, I feel at home, I feel myself, I feel connected.

As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.

I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.

I'm an L.A. girl, a Cali girl - a Cali girl from Connecticut.

I don't feel any connection to Russia.

I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.

The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.

All great peoples are conservative.

I come from a very conservative background.

I like Atlanta a lot but no place beats my house. I just like the Black success in Atlanta. I loved being surrounded by that.

I was born and brought up in Himalchal Pradesh, so I have bond with mountains and love being surrounded by them. So I love Nepal.

I grew up surrounded by both Haitian and Japanese culture.

All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

Without its roots in reality, I don't think escapism can survive.

I knew I had that Cajun heritage, that Acadian heritage; I just feel it. And my gut says Irish on the other side. Irish and French, that's what I feel. When you're young, it doesn't matter so much, but as you get older, I would suspect part of the ageing process is to wonder about your ancestors - who were they? What were their lives like?

My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.

Sweden will always be my home, since my childhood there was like a fairytale, so I'll always go back to it.

May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.

I speak Swedish, it's my first language. Of course, growing up with Latin American parents from Argentina, I also have some other influences from other cultures. But Sweden is where I feel the most at home.

My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.

I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother.

I remember 'Roots' growing up and the cultural impact it had on the country. Watching 'Roots' was not the cool remove of reading about slavery in a book or hearing about it in class. It became something that swept people along.

My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.