Quotes About Roots

My father's family is German and Czech.

Germany is, of course, my country.

Of course, our roots are in Germany, it always will be the feeling of home.

My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from Detroit, so I would go back and forth to Africa a lot.

The roots of my music start from the ghetto.

You can take the girl out of the estate, but you can't take the estate out of the girl.

I believe that you should not be just raised on what the music is right then. You should be raised on what is from your past, what your parents have grown up with, because it's a really big piece of your culture that you need to know about, and I'm glad my mother has done that for me.

Connecticut is home for life. I'm so glad I chose to go to school here.

'The Last Kingdom''s got its roots in history, and it's a lot grittier. It doesn't have the 'Game of Thrones' gloss.

I lost my accent pretty quickly, so everyone assumes I was born and raised in America. But I'm very much still in touch with my Filipino roots. That will never go away.

I wanted to go away from home, but not too far from home.

I'll always be a Georgia girl at heart, but I live in Los Angeles full time. My parents still live in Georgia, so I go home as often as I can.

You can never blame somebody for wanting to go home.

I was born and raised in Chicago and I kind of wanted to go home to where I'm from, where my roots are.

I grew up with go-go music. We wasn't really hip-hop fans.

When I come home, I say I'm coming home to Dublin. When I'm in Dublin, I say I'm going home to New York. I'm sort of a man of two countries.

Of course I had a good family, so that kept my feet on the ground.

My parents did not want us to lose our culture and our language. And that was a good thing.

Sensuality often hastens the Growth of Love so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

Growing up, all I did was write about the fact that I'm from where I'm from. I was a big champion of where I was from and Wisconsin in general, and the Midwest.

My father had season tickets to the Packer games, and I have several of those. I have a lot of family that still lives in the Bay Area and in Wisconsin, too. And so, I like to get back as often as I can.

I'm born and raised in Houston, Texas, but Wisconsin is always going to be a home for me, and I'll always be back.

My mama is African American and from Wisconsin. My baba was born in Iran. My parents have stressed the idea of creating your own path, and creating your own identity is part of that. That's why embracing these two cultures is important to me.