Said Musa Quotes

In Kazakhstan, once you're someone's guest, it's really hard to get away - everyone wants you to stay. They believe that if you invite a guest, luck will fly into your house.

I definitely have my Palestinian gene. I love to play host.

When I finally went to Ireland, I had to go. It was 1993. My father was finally too old to travel alone, and he asked me to take him home. When an old man asks you to take him home, you have to do it.

The Gandhi family has a tradition of being good hosts. When you call upon them, they treat you with a lot of respect.

That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.

When I get some time off, I like to go back to my roots in the North East. My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

My parents are very humble people who have simple lives... they live in a pleasant little town in China.

I am fighting royalty. I have gypsy kings on both sides of the family.

The house of an Albanian belongs to God and the guest …. If a guest enters your house, even through he may be in blood with you, you must say to him, “Welcome.”

My dad's family comes from the North, and my mother's family comes from somewhere around Carmarthenshire.

I knew that no matter what door you knock on in a Cretan village, it will be opened for you. A meal will be served in your honor, and you will sleep between the best sheets in the house. In Crete, the stranger is still the unknown god. Before him, all doors and all hearts are opened.

My parents' relationship with Kolkata is so strong. Growing up, the absence of Kolkata was always present in our lives.

I think a lot of people, even if you're not Asian, you go to your place of origin where your family comes from, and you get this sense of, 'Wow - people look like me and talk like me and treat me like their son in the stores and like a cousin in the restaurants.'

My family in St. Louis brings me to my roots.

I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.

When I look back on my own experiences with Mean Gene, I always remember such a kind man willing to offer insight with his vast knowledge on the industry.

I come from a family that raised me with good southern values.

We all have to appreciate where we come from and how wonderful our parents were.

It's just an honor to compete in New York, New Jersey, the tri-state area, where we're from. I have so much roots there, so much family.

I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect.... For after all, they could be my people.

It was just the DNA of my family. Giving back didn't feel like an entitlement; it was an obligation.

If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that.

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

I have 52 first cousins. My mom and dad were the only two to move to North America, so I've got deep family there, but I'm a California kid.