Quotes About Roots

I want to be a proud daughter of Punjab. Celebrate my roots - fly, flourish, write stories, characters. Don't hold me and my voice to ransom. Enable me, don't disable me!

In taking Dell private, we plan to go back to our roots, focusing on the entrepreneurial spirit that made Dell one of the fastest-growing and most successful companies in history.

Folk is bare bones music.

I was reared on folk music.

I'm a third-generation Miamian. I'm fond of it. I'm an expatriate, so it's the only American city I can still legitimately claim.

My dad was born in Desertmartin at the foot of Slieve Gallion.

I came from a long line of football players.

I was never very interested in my own experience, I think, in fact, if my films have a common link, maybe it's being a foreigner - it's common for people who are born abroad - they don't know so well where they belong.

I am, first and foremost, a proud Louisianan.

Seattle is home, that's first and foremost.

I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be.

If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?

I don't want to be one of those guys who makes it somewhere and forgets where they come from. Flint is very important to me.

I am from the bush. The bush did not define me. I did not stay in the bush, but I never forgot where I came from.

I've not forgotten where I came from but I've grown and I've evolved and that is the secret to being a reality star.

I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.

I haven't forgotten where I came from.

My family grew up in Florence. There I became what I am now, and those are things that cannot be forgotten.

The family is the foundation of everything.

For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.

I was born in France. I grew up in Africa.

France is my home.

My parents live there, and I was born and raised in Scotland. I lived there for the first 11 years of my life, until my parents decided to take our family to France where we lived for a couple of years. We then moved back to Scotland, and that is where I feel most home - where I come back to myself, and I love more than I can say.

I am French. I was born here, I live here and France is my cultural identity.