Quotes About Roots

If you ask me where do I belong, it would be somewhere in the Irish Sea almost - born in Hong Kong, Chinese mother, Portuguese father from Macao, lived in Europe most of my life.

I was interested with exploring the idea of who gets to be in possession of the land - how it's sometimes impossible to go back home, how family can be the thing that drags you down.

My roots are in classical music and jazz, and I want the freedom of being able to improvise. This freedom is possible only in a live concert.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.

I always consider myself a Hyderabadi; my roots are here.

My roots, in college, were in behavior in the context of evolution.

It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.

I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.

I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is!

I come from a poor community, and I still go back there whenever I can, and I think that makes it easier to cope with fame and being on TV.

At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

My nan and granddad are from Cork.

I'm not part of a middle-class establishment. I'm working class, and I grew up in a council house.

I was born in Washington, D.C., where my father was working for the Federal Trade Commission, and my mom was editor for the National Council of Catholic Women, but my parents were simply awaiting my birth before moving back to their roots in Rhode Island to raise their family.

I grew up as a country boy.

I grew up in the country. I am a real proud country boy, love getting back home.

I'm really just a country boy.

I'm a country boy.

Country music, to me, is what I grew up on.

Country music belongs to America.

Country music has always sort of been country music.

I hope that country music embraces me because I grew up on it and have a love for the music.

By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.