Miralem Pjanic Quotes

My family is Anglo-Indian, and of the four children, I'm the only one who wasn't born in India.

My mother told me when I left for college, 'Never forget your roots,' and I never have.

Of course, our roots are in Germany, it always will be the feeling of home.

I've lived all my life in the U.S., but to be brutally honest, I don't really have any ties to the country apart from my mum and dad. Most of the rest of my family live in the Stockport area, and I've always related more to that side of my background.

If you grow up with traditions in your family, it's always nice to be able to get home and have those moments.

When you have parents that come from a country that you weren't raised in, you feel this weird sense of familiarity, like you've returned to something.

Let's treasure our roots, even when we're far away.

For me, understanding your heritage and wanting to leave a legacy was always important to me.

I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.

My father and mother emigrated to Canada in 1958, but there's nobody more English than an Englishman who no longer lives in England, and our home was a shrine to all things English.

I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.

Although I feel very French, a part of my heart is in the States. When my brother and I arrived, we didn't really speak any English, and when we left, that's all we spoke when we played together. It was just a beautiful place to grow up.

My father is Swedish and my mother is French.

I was born in India - but never really lived there.

I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.

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

I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.

Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.

For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.

I'll never lose my roots. I think I'm too close to my family for that. I still make my trip back to Nebraska every year, and I still love going back to Texas where I grew up, as well. I've just kind of had to mature a little bit more and get used to a little bit different style of life.

People will not look forward to posterity who are not anxious to look backward to their ancestry

You like to think that you're bigger than your traditions and customs, but they form who you are.

My grandparents were from Spain, and I had a Spanish passport.