Quotes About Roots

Alistair Moffat

But I suppose our childhoods are seeds inside of us that plant roots forever, even when we're certain their life cycles have long since been extinguished. How long will it take for my own roots to loosen their grip?

Royal Oaks, Michigan

Ser de un determinado lugar quizá consiste en eso: no comprender en qué consiste.

If we deny our culture and become nothing and everything, that weakens us.

I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.

When I'm back home, all I wear is African fabric. All I really rock is the traditional stuff.

The roots that weave up my right arm and onto my neck are my way of connecting with the earth: the earth's roots carry water like a human's veins carry blood.

Ideas must counter ideas. You can drop all the bombs you want, but if you don't pull up weeds by their roots, they just grow back.

I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture.

I got to Nashville on Labor Day weekend in 1972. And the Grand Ole Opry is still there, the Country Music Hall of Fame is still there. And the roots of country music are still there. It's where the authenticity and the empowering force lies.

Pretty much every weekend, my wife and I have the shall-we-live-in-the-country conversation. I suppose it's something to do with getting older and feeling I want to shed some of the things I've been doing for the last 20 years and go back to my roots.

I didn't grow up in a house - we moved a lot, and we always lived in apartments. But we looked a lot; we went to open houses almost every weekend. I think that's why I always wanted a house.

I've never lived in Eastern Europe, although both my wife and I have ancestors in Poland and Russia - but I can see the scenes I create.

My father emigrated from Poland and my mother from Romania. There was no affluence in my family.

Poland is my home, my roots are here. There is nowhere I would rather live.

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

My parents are Polish. I don't know anything about Italian-ness.

My roots in electronic music go from weird glitch music to now what's seen as pop music. Electronic music is pop music now.

Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere.

Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.

I was born in Oxford. I grew up in Cascais, Portugal.

I'm fully English, but Portugal is my home.

My daughter's Portuguese.