Quotes About Roots

There's a sense of family in Colorado; there's such a pride factor there.

It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history.

I grew up in a Glaswegian house because my parents are fairly Glaswegian-sounding.

When you have parents that come from a country that you weren't raised in, you feel this weird sense of familiarity, like you've returned to something.

I was born in Luton, I grew up in Luton, and all my family and friends are still there. Luton is home for me.

Our tired, old politics is tearing at the seams. The Lib Dems have returned to their local roots, just as a more pluralist politics is desperately needed.

I didn't technically grow up in the South, but both my parents were from there.

My interest in science had many roots. Some came from my mother as she finished her B.A. degree studies in college while I was in my early teens.

I was born in Cleveland, Ohio; raised primarily in Phoenix, Arizona; and, after running away from home in my teens to play music and bouncing around a bit, settled in Oxford, Mississippi, which I consider more my home than anywhere else in the world.

When I read about Gram Parsons' dream of this Cosmic American Music when I was in my late teens, that stuck with me: that idea, that ambition, to draw off the roots of music but take it somewhere fresh.

My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.

We wanted to make movies back in college before Rooster Teeth. Our roots have always been in feature filmmaking, and we've always wanted to go back to it.

In Cleveland, music was always a big part of my life. That's really where I cut my teeth.

I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.

I have never seen a picture of my mother. My mother's family never owned a photograph of her, which tells you everything you need to know about where I'm from and what the world was like for the people who gave me life.

I don't feel Swedish. In fact, my father tells me to get out of here as soon as I can.

I'm half Telugu. My mom is Telugu and dad, a Maharashtrian. I was brought up in Gwalior. I was exposed to English, Hindi, and Marathi. I heard my mom speak to her family in Telugu, so I got the hang of it.

I may have been born in Tel Aviv, but my umbilical cord emerges from the Temple Mount.

It always gave me a peculiar feeling to catch a glimpse of my parents' lives before I was born.

Hamilton thrust his hands into his pockets. "Home

Simón Bolívar was born on 24 January 1783 to an enormously wealthy and distinguished Venezuelan family that had aristocratic roots in the mountainous and windswept region of Vizcaya (Biscay) in northern Spain.

Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD , and whose hope is in the LORD . For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river. – Jeremiah 17:7–8

Here, where we had done the most of our growing up, the old family home had been a fortress against the world. This is something that the children of immigrants all know.

We cut ourselves off from our own roots, the roots of our being, and the very laws of our human nature. This one-sided focus puts us, today, in grave danger, because the violation of our own laws of nature brings about individual and social catastrophes.