Quotes About Origins

I was a farmer, a villager, and I was born to be such.

I've always been fascinated by family ancestry.

There was no concept of fashion and catwalk shows where I came from.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

One of my biggest fears when I see really bad people on T.V. is that I don't know how they got there.

I've always been interested in pandemics, where they come from, how they arise, and the key feature which really fascinates me is that the biology of the bug is the least of it.

I grew up in Rayagada in Orissa state in eastern India. Few people have even heard of it.

A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.

Archaeology holds all the keys to understanding who we are and where we come from.

I've been to the Met Ball and the Tonys, but Cannes is particularly huge. Every time at these big events, it's just - whoa. Because at the end of the day, I'm a guy from Devonshire who grew up on a farm who loves his dog.

Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois on the pretext they don't share the same religion, color or origins.

We are 'nuclear waste' from the fuel that makes stars shine; indeed, each of us contains atoms whose provenance can be traced back to thousands of different stars spread through our Milky Way.

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

I admit I have a Hungarian temper. Why not? I am from Hungary. We are descendants of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun.

The first thing I ever heard about Barack Obama was that he had a white mother and a black father. Interestingly, the person who informed me of this spoke only matter-of-factly, with no hint of the gossip's wicked delight.

I was born in an Ilokano village called Cabugawan. Most of the houses in it were roofed with thatch, pan-aw, a species of wild grass.

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.

I think there is some resistance when people talk about ethical fashion, and a tendency to panic that if you're bringing a moral agenda and highlighting the origins of the garments, you can't incorporate style. But there's no reason why style and conscience can't co-exist.

I was raised in Maryland. My mom was born in London, and my dad was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

My people came from western Tennessee and western Kentucky.

Disguising your own origins is a deeply American impulse, but that doesn't make it any less compromising. The way I live my life is to try to foreground the tensions and paradoxes of being a white person who's interested in racial justice and reconciliation, rather than disguise or obliterate them.