Quotes About Roots

Most inventions are based on some prior history.

Pittsburgh is home. I was born there, and it will always have priority in that respect.

I went to private school, but I've got family from North Carolina.

I still have a book club with my friends from when I was 5. That's the privilege of growing up in a place where people want to remain. It's a huge gift.

I don't come from a privileged background.

I am a hardcore Bihari boy. I am born and brought up in Bihar, and for me, ethnicity is not a problem and is inbuilt in me.

I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country.

I believe we are more a product of our homes than of any other single influence.

My professional and personal roots in Alabama are deep and lasting.

We might all come from different places, but home means something - something powerful - to each of us.

I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.

Rather than just saying, like, 'Your economy is the be all and end all,' I go back to my three roots that I've often said about this being best country for business, the best to raise a family in, and the best to grow old in with a sense of dignity and respect.

England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about my own experience, it wasn't England so much as what went before.

We should all know our family's story, all the more so if nobody tells it to us directly and we have to find it out for ourselves.

And sometimes people say, 'Oh well, we all descend from Adam and Eve.' But do you descend from Charlemagne directly? Do you descend from Saint King Louis IX? I do.

I grew up in Gladstone, Alabama, on a dirt road, with an outside bathroom.

Roy Acuff's from Maynardville, and that's where a lot of my family's from. So he's, I've been told, a distant cousin, as well.

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

When I took my kids to see the house that we're buying I took them in the car to the estate I grew up on. I got the kids out of the car and explained that this is where they're from.

I do a lot of explaining of where I'm from to Americans.

I moved to Europe and was able to take time and really explore who I was and who I wanted to be. I needed that time for myself to really do that self-exploration and get back in touch with my roots.

In terms of exploring an identity in the country music world, what I realized very quickly was that there are people who have been performing country music since they were kids. It's very much a part of who they are; very much that jazz and blues are a part of who I am, because I grew up listening to and playing that kind of music.

I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.

I grew up in a small, rural community, where my extended family were mountain-folk type people, and some were very religious.