Quotes About Origins

The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.

I'm right-handed with everything. My mom was lefty.

I feel like our history and our roots make us who we are.

You can't forget your roots.

You can't really run from your roots.

My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.

I want to take IBM back to its roots.

My roots are documentaries.

I am very proud of my Australian roots.

My roots go back to West Africa, but my last name is Kirby, which is not an African name.

The things that are considered to be respectable have their roots in unrespectable things.

I have roots in Jabalpur and that's as Indian as it can get.

I grew up in Russia. I grew up in Latvia, to be exact.

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.

I was born in L.A. In Santa Monica, actually.

IBM existed a good 50 years before mainframes - we started with scales.

I come from a heavy-lidded people. My family, you'll see pictures of them, and it's the same thing all the way back to Scotland.

Oh, I grew up in Seattle.

I think all of the secrets of the universe are revealed in history. We understand who we are by understanding where we've been and why we are the way we are, and where we come from.

It is to such men as Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson and Jackson and Franklin, all most lowly born, that we owe most of our greatness as a nation.

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.

I am from Chicago, but my dad is from Karachi, Pakistan, and my mom is from New Delhi, India. So, I've got a little Paki-Indie fusion going on here.