Quotes About Roots

I was actually born in Madison, Wisconsin, but raised in urban Missouri.

Wisconsin will always be home to me in a nostalgic kind of way.

I was born and raised right outside of Green Bay, Wisconsin.

It's been over 10 years since I've lived in Wisconsin, but it'll always feel like home to me.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

I wish my grandmother and grandfather were still alive, because they were able to keep me grounded.

When I looked at my mother, I always saw a bit of Ireland. And I suppose when I look to Ireland, I see a bit of my mother - her faith, her wit, her endurance.

To the best of my knowledge and of my effort, every lineage statement within 'Roots' is from either my African or American families' carefully preserved oral history, much of which I have been able conventionally to corroborate with documents.

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

More and more, as civilization develops, we find the primitive to be essential to us. We root into the primitive as a tree roots into the earth. If we cut off the roots, we lose the sap without which we can't progress or even survive. I don't believe our civilization can continue very long out of contact with the primitive.

As 'Octomom,' I was the walking dead. When I woke up and I went back to my roots, my helping profession, and my kids, we were struggling financially, but it didn't matter. I never felt so free and so happy in my life.

That's where I get my whole music theory from, my pops and my grandfather.

My theory is the root of a country artist is truth and honesty. For me, I look at Sam Hunt. The truth and the honest thing is we have southern roots, we were raised in a southern way, but we listen to Drake and other stuff, too.

I am southern - from the great state of South Carolina. They say, 'You can take the girl out of the South, but you can't take the South out of the girl.' And it's true.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

I was thinking of my father's family. I can find their graves, but not that much about them. They didn't do anything notable enough to be in the records of newspapers.

I was born in Massachusetts and lived there until I was thirteen years old.

I've lived in New York for thirty years now, but I'm a proud Pittsburgher, and home is home. My family's still in Pittsburgh.

I want to share music that we grew up with for this generation, the music my parents shared with me.

I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.

Even though Puerto Rico will always be my hometown, I feel Miami is my second home.

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.

You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales.

I have parents and family who will never allow me not to be grounded. If I thought for a second that I could possibly lift off the ground, I have a thousand people who will grab my ankles.