Quotes About Roots

I was born and brought up in Delhi.

Some of my family goes back a long way in Denver.

Denver is home to me. It's my everything. It's where my children are, where my lady lives, where I have my house.

I still live in Des Moines.

Obviously I descend from Africa.

I am of an African-Jamaican descent.

I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to Canada before I was born.

People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch.

I was born and raised in Detroit.

I am a son of Detroit. I was born in Detroit.

My mother was actually born in Toledo and raised in Detroit.

I'm from Detroit, but Chicago is a second home for me.

The city of Detroit is always home, and I'm very proud of where I'm from.

I'm born and bred out of Detroit. Detroit is an interesting place. You've got to be from somewhere.

People wonder why I love Africa so much. I say this is where I was born and raised. My roots are in Africa; that's were I developed.

I spent the better part of my developing years in Massachusetts.

At heart, I am a country girl who grew up in Devon.

I didn't live the lifestyle of the rich and famous. My diapers were nappy cloth. I didn't live in a big house.

D.C. is in my blood, my diction, my sensibility and style. I am, though, in love with a city that cannot fully love me back.

I came back when I'd had a taste of other places and realized that I would never feel the same sense of connection to any place other than the Ozarks.

On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was.

If not for the Tea Party, the Republican Party would not be coming back to its roots.

If I want my children to learn what bomba and plena is, I will teach them.

I'm the kid that tried to take Latin in school because I felt if I could understand the root of everything, then I could understand why it worked. That was what took me into engineering. And the reason I stayed is, engineering teaches you to solve problems. It teaches you to think.