Quotes About Roots

I'm happy being Canadian and I'm proud of where I come from. So I'll keep my passport.

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

It was always a goal of mine to go back to Cuba, where my paternal lineage comes from.

My brother loves this country deeply. He has laid down roots, and he has always been incredibly patriotic and committed to this country.

Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.

I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country!

I really, really missed the Pennsylvania countryside and hills.

My mother is Afro-Caribbean and my father is Caucasian-American, and I was born in Pennsylvania and moved to the Cayman Islands when I was about 2. So I grew up there with my mother, and it's really all I know. I grew up there until it was time to go to college, and that's when I moved back to America.

I'm from Pennsylvania, so I was in New York a lot and my brother lives in New York.

My introduction of Whitney was that if there's going to be one performer for the next generation who combined the beauty and lyric phrasing of a Lena Horne with those Gospel fiery roots of an Aretha Franklin, it would be Whitney Houston.

Well, being from Mississippi, the church house is kind of the common denominator. It was for me growing up. Like so many public performers, that was the first place I was ever invited to sing.

I come from a family rooted in the arts, so I think I naturally gravitated towards performing from an early age.

It's quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it's nice to go home.

I could easily make Nashville a permanent home.

In whatsoever countrey men are bred (I know not by what sweetnesse of it led), They nourish in their minds a glad desire, Unto their native homes for to retire

It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

Han, memang bukan sesuatu yang baru Jalan setapak setiap orang dalam mencari tempat ditengah-tengah dunia dan masyarakatnya, untuk menjadi diri sendiri, melelahkan dan membosankan untuk diikuti. Lebih membosankan adalah mengamati yang tidak membutuhkan sesuatu jalan, menjangkarkan akar tunggang pada bumi dan tumbuh pada pohon.

In writing are the roots, in writing are the foundations of eloquence; by writing resources are stored up, as it were, in a sacred repository, when they may be drawn forth for sudden emergencies, or as circumstances require.

I love the idea of homeland, but not the actual return to one.

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.