Ry Cooder Quotes

My parents have always been very concerned of making sure we know who we are and where we come from. I have to give them credit for that. Knowing your roots is quite important.

I know where I come from and what my roots are.

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

I have my husband and children near me in Rome, and I feel this is where we are temporarily belonging. But personally, all my life, I have felt the absence of a sense of history.

You want to try to find your heritage.

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

I make our family traditions a priority.

I come from a family of Catholic Italians, and that will always be in my blood.

I was researching my family tree, and I was deeply hoping I was going to turn out to be Eastern European, but I'm not.

I am an ordinary woman from a Tamil family.

What it depends on is someone's upbringing and the traditions and that is how you decide if you are Jewish or not.

My dad does a good job of reminding me where I came from.

I'm part German and part Irish. In fact, there's even a town in Germany that was named after my family, Limbach or so forth. And I don't know. I might even have some Indian blood in there.

My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

I love my heritage!

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

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.

Europe has been in my bones.

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts and cousins all around, and I thought everybody lived like that.

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?

My heritage is English, so I'm proud to be back here.