Quotes About Roots

It's always kind of gratifying to go back to the place that launched you and show you did good.

You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.

It matters a great deal that I come from a Jewish background.

L.A. has been a great place to dip into, but I'll always come back to London.

I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to come from. It's also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity.

Boston is just a great place to be from.

Greek blood courses through me.

I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.

I'm an East Coast guy and always will be. But I'm always going to find my way back to Green Bay whether I'm living here or not. Green Bay is a great place. Green Bay is awesome.

I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.

I basically grew up in the backwoods.

We grew up in Durham, N.C.

One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.

It's not that hard to stay grounded. It's the way I was brought up.

I was on the beach, and I was just thinking to myself that I have no one place where I actually feel like I'm at home. I came up with the idea of having no roots - never being grounded to a certain place but having your home with people who you love.

I'm lucky to attribute my success to the foundation my family gave me. I've always felt grounded in them.

When people say, 'You seem so grounded; you seem so normal,' I think it's the way I was raised and the way my sister and I were brought up by our parents.

I've tried very hard to stay grounded with my family, my ol' buddies, nature, music, and creativity.

My Liverpool blood kept me grounded.

Family keeps you very grounded.

Elk Grove will always be home.

Concord, California was a great place to grow up.

When the culture is strong, you've got this consistency where black people can grow up in these places with this voice just resonating about our special-ness in the universe. And I always say you're in trouble if you get too far away from that core that grounds you.

I didn't actually grow up in London.