Martina McBride Quotes

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

I find great joy in tradition, and, in fact, I seek it.

I am not myself, I am the result of all my ancestors.

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.

I didn't come from a very rigid background, where there's a clan or a tribe or a religion.

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

I have been raised to value my family.

You can't run from your roots.

I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.

I think the legacy we leave is our family. I don't think it's money. I don't think it's - I'm not saying that charity isn't a great thing. I just think that it's my family. Even now I look and I think, God, I'm lucky if I lost it all.

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

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.

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.

Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.

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.

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.

Country, Religion, Family!

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

A deep meaning resides in old customs.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

It is important to know where you come from.

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 family in St. Louis brings me to my roots.

I think that our comfort is in our history.

The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.