N. Scott Momaday Quotes

I'm gonna be real everywhere I go, but I'm with my people, I'm connected to my roots - I'm in my country! I don't need to live somewhere else.

I love my heritage!

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

Europe has been in my bones.

I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

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

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.

For the most part, people are proud of the place from which they come.

And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And I thought I can't be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore.

My blood, my roots, my soul is in the state of Montana.

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.

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.

I'm always in touch with where I'm from.

I'm so proud of my heritage, and I know who my fans are.

I'm very attached to my roots, but I feel Italian more than anything else.

Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?

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

You can't run from your roots.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word 'home' has only one meaning: Iran. I suppose it's that way for everyone: Home is the place where one is born and raised.

One's native land! There should one live! There die!

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.

I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.

Israel is the country of my birth. When I come here, I feel I'm coming home.