Khaled Hosseini Quotes

If people do not know where they have been and what they have been they don't know what they are. They don't know where they going to have to go or where they still have to be.

How do we know who we are if we don’t know where we’ve been?

Let me tell you a secret: there is no such thing as an uninteresting life One day you must tell me your full and complete story, unabridged and unexpurgated.We will set aside some time for it, and meet. It's very important. Maneck smiled. 'Why is it important?' It's extremely important because it helps to remind yourself of who you are. Then you can go forward, without fear of losing yourself in this ever-changing world.

If you don't know where you come from, it's difficult to determine where you are.- It's even more difficult to plan where you are going.

U don't know where u goin unless u know where u come from.

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

It's best to know a little about where you're coming from and why you've arrived where you are.

It's better to know your story than not to know.

I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.

If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.

To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

I've known where my heritage is from all along.

To be human is to have a collection of memories that tells you who you are and how you got there.

Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out that's going to do that - it's looking in.

I guess we're all kinda searching for a connection with something that's relevant to our past and speaks to who we are, and maybe helps us make a connection to what we are, and where we come from.

Getting to know where we come from is a really profound way of getting to look at who we are.

It's really hard to escape where you were brought up. Not that I would ever want to escape it.