Quotes About Roots

There was a lot of aggression in me. It comes from my Bihari roots, I guess.

I'm more Filipino than I am German. I guess I shouldn't be ashamed to say that.

My grandfather was a direct descendent of Guru Nanak, which my father also carried forth.

I'm from a Gypsy background!

My family is basically Gypsies - for real.

I'll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I'll always help out one of my own.

I'm a girl from East Ham.

Ricordare che un tempo vivevamo in certi luoghi fa parte della nostra auto-riscoperta attuale. Fornisce radici a ciò che definiamo essere umani (etimologicamente qualcosa come essere radicati nella terra).

I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.

how was a man to be explained unless you at least knew somebody who knew his father and mother?

The gods of the hearth exist for us still; and let all new faith be tolerant of that fetishism, lest it bruise its own roots.

You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!

On the flight over to the Gulf of Mexico, I wondered about how they say you can never go home again, but maybe an equally expensive reality is how many people, regardless of how many years or miles they put between themselves and where they were born, are never truly able to leave home.

As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

I was born and raised in New York. My family has been in New York City since the Civil War. I have a ton of N.Y.C. in my DNA, from both sides of my family. I had a wonderful childhood in the city.

It's a lot of wonderful things about the Bay area and Oakland that I absolutely love. I wouldn't change being from there by any stretch.

My music is roots music: it's a combination of growing up on the coast and mucking around with wood and wooden tones and sounds, salt, sand, fire, dogs, and heaps of brothers.

I just go back to my roots. I was literally born 26 miles from Martinsville High School where Coach Wooden grew up, and then my dad coached there for four years.

Living in the woods is part of my origins, it's like when I was a kid.

Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice.

Just in general as a person, not necessarily as a songwriter, being in cities wasn't the right fit. I couldn't escape and be in the woods in 10 minutes if I needed to. I like that in Eau Claire, I can walk to a bar or a coffee shop, and there's city-ish things, but I can also drive and in eight minutes be at my parents' land outside of town.

We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton.