Rey Mysterio Quotes

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cultivate and not cultivate.

I want to show how strong I am from my roots.

I think everyone is kind of an immigrant somehow, and I wasn't raised in an American society at home. My household was a Jamaican household, so I got all my traditions, all my roots and culture intact, so I'm able to support both countries.

Embracing my origin has made me the confident and grateful person I am.

I cannot forget my roots. That's what helps me win fights.

I'm proud of who I am, and I'm proud I grew up in Puerto Rico.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

I'm very proud of my roots, and I would never try not to be who I am.

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

I think it is just a function of the fact that I moved around so much as a child that I learnt early on to make every place my home.

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

I grew up moving around. I went to seven different schools, so I know what it's like to be that new girl and have to not only know who you are but also take that into foreign circumstances and know how to respond.

Maybe to feel like an Afghan I needed to be born and raised in the States, and maybe I needed to live in Afghanistan for nearly a decade to feel like an American. Both worlds shaped me, but neither one of them completely correspond to the picture I have of myself.

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

When you think about your heritage, you think about toughness and hard work.

Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.

I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.

The land was ours before we were the land’s She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people ...

Art is the permanence of a civilization.

Cultural goods … are the source of the Nation's identity, continuity and development.

We can't restore our civilization with someome else's babies.