Quotes About Roots

Cleveland is my hometown.

I was actually born in Baltimore! Although I moved away when I was quite young and consider Chicago to be my hometown, Baltimore is sentimental to me, and I still keep in touch with family friends I knew as a little girl.

I feel like a Nice citizen: it's my hometown. I come back to the city to spend time there because it's in my DNA.

If you're going to break out anywhere it would be nice to break out in your hometown.

Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.

I grew up in Honolulu.

Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it's not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I'm going to be married and buried there.

It is important for us to understand where we came from and how we got here because it would be very foolish of us to get off that horse we rode in on.

No matter how nice a hotel is, it's not home.

Hotels make me sad. I need a home.

I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do.

I'm a kid from housing estate in Glasgow.

I'm going to always have a home in Houston, I'm going to always come back.

My father's family, I think, were mostly from Lancashire, but I don't know how far back we go. I think it's quite a few generations.

Where you come from is such a huge part of who you are today.

If I look at my make-up, Canada is a huge part of what I am.

My heritage is a huge part of everything I do; it is, after all, part of what has made me who I am.

I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past.

I'm very proud to be from Hull.

I come from very humble beginnings.

I do come from fairly humble beginnings.

I come from a pretty humble family, and I try to be a humble guy.

I don't like it if I act anything other than the humble Winnipegger I was raised to be.

I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.