Quotes About Roots

Crystal Palace were my first club and one I hold dear to my heart.

Actually, it doesn't matter to the papers why you left Glasgow. They never look at the roots of the problems you had, and you simply end up being painted as un-nationalistic.

My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

Even if I have a home in Paris and sometimes in New York, whenever I was saying I have to go home, it was going to my mother.

I'm very Belgian, and I will die Belgian. I just have my house in the north of France because I began my career in Paris, even though I don't live there anymore.

I was born in Paris. I grew up here, and I still live here, and I will forever, I think.

I know Paris is my hometown, but I would never say, 'Oh, I'm going home back to Paris.' Because we kept moving when I was a child, my home was just where I was at that moment.

I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.

I feel like I lived my life in one of three places: at Indian Hill Park, at a Manasquan school or at the beach.

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

For someone like me who's lived in the same place her whole life - I mean, I lived three blocks from where I was born, and I met my future husband in the eighth grade - there are always family stories and legends passed down.

derives from the 14th-century word Old French aleurer, to attract, captivate, and more exotically, to train a falcon to hunt. The roots are à, to, and loirre, falconer's lure.

The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children

When we ignore the connections between corporal punishments and authoritarianism, however, as most of us generally do, the etiology of authoritarianism is often obscured and the childhood roots of adult authoritarianism remain unnoticed.

their great hope was to restore Western culture to its religious roots, to unleash the powers of the imagination, to reenchant the world through Christian faith and pagan beauty.

a sense of not belonging is something one inherits.

Para intentar comprender a la gente, hay que excavar hasta las raíces. No basta con darle un empujón al tiempo con el hombro para darle mejor aspecto; hay que arañar entre sus fisuras y obligarlo a dar el máximo. Ensuciarse las manos. A mí no me da asco.

Home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It's the place where you become yourself.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that's it. I don't tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

I have a sense of Europe also being like home. I mean, Australia is my home, and my heart is there, but I suppose I've always felt close to Europe, given we had family there, and we would visit.

I was born in Boston, and when I was two and a half, my parents moved to Minneapolis. And then from there, when I was five, we moved back to Portugal. But before that, a lot of family members had come to visit us, and we had been back to Portugal many times because my whole family lived there.

I am tied to my father's land and am happy to visit relatives in Egypt, but I feel Italian and was never remotely tempted when Egypt asked me to play for them.

I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.