Quotes About Roots

I think it's important as an artist to never forget where you're from.

Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.

I'll never forget where I came from. It's always on my mind.

Do not let where you come from define you, but never forget the values you learned from your close community.

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

Home is where one starts from.

Every time I go to Veracruz, I feel like, OK, I am back. When my feet go to the ground on the earth, I think, 'This is me, this is home, these are my roots, and now I can go and travel again to wherever you want me to go.'

I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with. Wherever I go, La Castellane is where I want to go back to.

I certainly feel I'm carrying the flag for Britain. I feel an honour in that but, at the same time, knowing my roots are in Africa, I'd like that to help motivate people from there. Even coming from a third world country, it is possible to get to the top of wherever they want to be.

Americans don't have deep gastronomic roots. They wanted to get away from the cultures of Europe or wherever they came from. We stirred up that melting pot pretty quickly.

I love London. Wherever I've lived, I've always had my flat here.

Almost any American can connect on some level to a family background of having come across some ocean. They say, 'My great-grandparents came from wherever... this is why we have this last name, why we do this thing at Christmas.' All the details get watered down but don't quite disappear.

Home is a relative concept. Home is very much wherever it is that your people are and where you fit in.

Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California.

I immerse myself in things that meant something to me while I was growing up.

My mother - who's from Iowa - owns and runs her own day-care centre, while my father's a developer. And my musical influences, I think, came from my father's side of the family.

Why would you want to just make up a middle name when the name should be coming from family and previous generations? I think it's really important.

I have 100 percent Bronx pride, like it's a country, like I am the Bronx.

My children were brought up with their grandparents, and I was brought up with my grandparents. I think the continuity of moving through life together gives people a certain pride and sense of security.

When you're from the islands, that's that pride.

I take full pride in the fact that I'm from Chandigarh.

As a Swiss-Italian who has always worked for foreign banks, there was clearly an element of pride going back to my roots and working for the biggest bank in my country.

I think we all have a primal desire to know as much as we can to find out about where we come from.

Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.