Dwight Yoakam Quotes

I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.

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

I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas.

I'm still very much a West Virginia boy. I haven't forgotten my roots, because that's really who I am.

'Knockemstiff' is a collection of short stories set in the holler of the same name in southern Ohio where I grew up. I tried to link the stories together through the place and some recurring characters.

My mom's side of the family is from Arkansas!

My dad got a job in a factory in Philadelphia, so I was raised in Germantown in a sort of a barracks for soldiers. They had housing for temporary housing. And then my parents saved money and bought a little house in South Jersey, built on a swamp.

My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida.

I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.

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

On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.

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

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

My mother's proud of where she's from, and her history, and her past, and same with my dad. I have roots in Africa. Like, I am from Africa as well as from Germany, and I am very proud of that.

One time, I went to school, and they asked us all to find out where our roots were. It's goin' around the class, and the kids were going, 'I'm Swedish-German' or 'I'm English-Irish.' They got to me and I said, 'Pure Kentuckian.'

My father belongs to Berhampur and my mother is from Uttar Pradesh.

My family goes way back in New York. So I am a New Yorker; I feel like a New Yorker. It's in my bones.

Aside from being a Latina, my family immigrated from Puerto Rico and Yugoslavia so I know all about that. I wouldn’t be able to do what I do today if they didn’t come to America. Everybody has an immigration story.

I might have been born just plain white trash / but Fancy was my name.

My parents were born and raised in Iowa and my two brothers were born in Iowa before my family moved to California where I was born so I still really feel like I have those Midwestern roots.

People ask where I'm from, and I say 'Los Angeles.' Then they ask again. 'Well, my parents are from Korea.'

My mother was actually born in Toledo and raised in Detroit.

The Clash will always be from London, and we will always be from New Jersey. But New Jersey doesn't create us.

Being from Oregon, it's part of who I am.

I have always thought of myself as being Northern Irish because that's what I am.