John Steinbeck Quotes

Remember where you came from.

It's good to look back and know where you come from.

It's good to know where you've come from.

Sometimes it can be easy to forget where your roots are or where you came from.

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

It's an important thing to remember where you came from.

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

I feel like our history and our roots make us 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 think that our comfort is in our history.

If you forget your history, you forget who you are.

We can never run away from our past. The past will catch up to us because it is us. It is a part of us; it's what makes us we are. It's what delineates the borders of our societies.

If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.

You can't really run from your roots.

For many human beings, an interest in the past starts with themselves. That is, in part, a result of biology. Like other creatures, humans have a beginning and an ending, and in between lies their story.

I always had my roots in the past.

You've got to remember where you come from.

The past is our very being.

Also, where does your identity come from? Your memory, of course.

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.

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

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

You can't run from your roots.

The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.