Quotes About Roots

I am a native of Hollis, Queens, N.Y.

I'm a Queens boy at the end of the day.

It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.

My family is from Elmhurst, Queens, 54th Avenue, but I was born in Northern California.

To my astonishment, everything that I had assumed was now questioned by the findings. What started off as a search for identity that appeared to be purely Scottish in origin ended up as a discovery of my migrant roots - indeed an understanding that almost all of our families, at some stage, have been migrants - and my European roots.

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.

It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.

I credit where I'm from so much for my outlook on life, my personality, the rawness and the countryness about me. All these quirky things are because of where I'm from.

I don't care if I get nominated for fifty-eight Grammys, the day I can't go back to where I came from, I quit.

You don't see guys being compared with other guys, you base people on your roots in racing. You would think I'd get more compared with people who do dirt racing.

I don't know that I could pick a better place to raise a family than Nashville.

I'm very proud of the way that I was raised, I'm very proud of the way that my parents raised me.

I'm part Maori. My mum's Maori, and she raised me. And my grandma, she's Maori.

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.

My roots are from Iran and so, I cook Iranian dishes that have been passed down the generations in our family. I was born and raised in India and enjoy cooking Indian food, too.

My mother and grandmother raised me. Queens raised me.

I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.

Both my parents are Italian. My mom was born and raised in Italy. My dad was born in Canada, but then they moved to Italy.

As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.

What I am is a direct result of how I was raised.

Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg.

I have so much appreciation for how those two cultures have created who I am. I'm a full-blooded Brazilian, with an entire extended family of Brazilians, but I was born and raised in the U.S.

I'm a Brazilian - full blood, parents born and raised, and I lived there for a little bit - but I didn't grow up there.

I was born in Birmingham and raised in Birmingham.