Quotes About Roots

I'm a child of provincial France.

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

For me, psychologically, I am very much an Indian.

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.

I'm actually Hispanic, and my mother is Puerto Rican.

I am a Puerto Rican. I could have been born on the moon, but I'm still Puerto Rican.

I'm half Puerto Rican.

I'm a Puerto Rican woman whose family has roots in Regla de Ocha, also known as Santeria.

I'm such a true Puerto Rican.

You know, you may not be born in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rican is definitely born in you.

My mother was born in Sinaloa, and she moved to Los Angeles when she was three years old. My father was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and moved here when he was 19. They met at the Palladium in Hollywood, and they've been together from that moment on.

I'm proud of who I am, and I'm proud I grew up in Puerto Rico.

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.

One of the things that concerns me is that so few people who go and get an education elsewhere... feel any real... pull for returning home.

In the middle of Mississippi, so many kinds of music came, but it was Nashville and country music that pulled my heart.

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.

One time, I went to school, and they asked us all to find out where our roots were. It's goin' around the class, and the kids were going, 'I'm Swedish-German' or 'I'm English-Irish.' They got to me and I said, 'Pure Kentuckian.'

When we did the 'Roots' tour with Cavalera Conspiracy, it was more flashy. It was supposed to be a big deal because it was a big album.

I will never be done with South Florida.

I am from Florida, so I didn't 'grow up' on Wu-Tang.

I was in Colorado for about 15 years but my family is all from Florida.

I have a huge connect with South. My father can speak fluent Tamil. He studied in Bengaluru. My brother studied in Kodaikanal. I am familiar with the South.