Quotes About Roots

Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.

I've been living in Mumbai for a long time now, and the city has grown on me and even become my home for all practical reasons. But I'll always be a Vizag girl at heart.

We're from Anaheim, that's our stomping grounds, that's where we grew up. That's where we practiced in the garage, that's where we went to high school.

I'm not a practicing Jew but my great-grandparents were. It's part of our family history.

You can't know who you are unless you know where you came from and give praise to those who laid the foundation.

I was born into a family of preachers.

My granddad and great granddad were Baptist preachers from Western Kentucky.

Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.

The Premier League benefits from foreigners, and the game's evolved in a way that's beneficial, but you can't lose the roots of the English game.

My father was Presbyterian.

We must preserve our cultural identity.

I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in black American music. I love it.

I never put pressure on myself because I know who I am and where I come from.

My dad, well, he sells tractors, just like my granddad, and I'm darn proud of that.

I was able to start a family in London and so on. It's a very dear place to my heart and will continue to be.

New York is such an amazing place. It's a city that I've wanted to live in since I was a little girl, my brother and I both. We both live here now and we've lived here for decades. My kids were born here.

I am a first-generation American of Chinese decent. My parents were both born and raised in China and moved to the U.S. in their 20s.

In the deep corner of my heart, I'm a Chicagoan, but it's been covered over by 20 years of living in the Bay Area.

Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country.

Everything you say in a family carries meaning from all that was said before. So with friends, there is less likelihood of a few words triggering associations from childhood, where our deepest emotions often are rooted.

We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.

I'm not defined by where I came from.

You have to decide what it is that shapes and defines you. I'm a big sister and a co-parent with my mom before anything. That's my root of all. It's my foundation.

I was definitely very much a country boy.