Quotes About Roots

I love L.A., but Pittsburgh just is home. This is what I know. This is where I was born and raised. This is what molded me to make me who I am.

I was raised in New Jersey - Long Branch.

I was born and raised in Denver, CO.

How I was raised is what I am today.

New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.

Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York.

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.

Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.

My whole family were from the East End, but they moved away when I was a child. They still cannot get their heads around the fact that I ran back to London as soon as I could, when I was 21.

The reason I first ran for the state legislature didn't start in a courtroom or in a lobbying firm or anywhere near Richmond, to be honest. It started in a little town on the Eastern Shore where I grew up on my family's farm and spent a lot of time fishing and working on the Chesapeake Bay.

I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch.

You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.

The Garden State will never leave me.

I ain't never detached myself from Gary.

I am a first generation American, and my family is from Bulgaria.

I come from generations of farmers.

I'm just so proud to be from San Francisco and to have a family history there. It's only two generations back, but still, it's two generations in San Francisco. I love it. I'm so proud of it.

My mother's family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King George III deed.

I'm a country boy. I'm from Georgia.

I grew up in Georgia, so I grew up listening to the Allman Brothers.

For one, the 'countryness' is pretty much in my blood. I'm from Georgia, down south. That voice just lives in me.