Martin Heidegger Quotes

I grew up in a wonderful blend of a lot of old culture.

We should not ignore or isolate our roots, no matter where we stay.

I'm sticking true to my roots.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?

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 understand people want to hold on to their roots.

I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.

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.

When we were children, we were told that we have a motherland, and that motherland was Spain. However, we have discovered later, in our lives, that as a matter of fact, we have several motherlands. And one of the greatest motherlands of all is, no doubt, Africa.

The notion of someone who is fitting in or trying to become part of a larger family... It's hard to separate that from my own Jewish roots.

My whole identity comes from Pakistan.

Traditions are our roots and a profile of who we are as individuals and who we are as a family. They are our roots, which give us stability and a sense of belonging - they ground us.

We have to redefine what we mean when we say, 'Who are your people?' 'Where are you from?'

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

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

He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.

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

I love my heritage!

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

You can't run from your roots.

OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality.

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.