Wallace Stegner Quotes

No matter where I go I know where I came from.

To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.

Sometimes it can be easy to forget where your roots are or where you came from.

What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that's what we have to sustain us in our endeavors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.

U don't know where u goin unless u know where u come from.

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

It's really important to go back to where you come from.

You can take the guy out of the neighorhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.

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

I am from the bush. The bush did not define me. I did not stay in the bush, but I never forgot where I came from.

How do we know who we are if we don’t know where we’ve been?

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Getting to know where we come from is a really profound way of getting to look at who we are.

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

I've always been interested in rootedness - mainly, I suppose, because I had very little experience of it.

I'll never forget where I came from. It's always on my mind.

It's better to know your story than not to know.

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

I go by 'Avi' because it's easier, but Avriel is my full name, and the Sequoias, that represents my home. So it's the truest version of me, it's where I came from.

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

I'll never forget where I came from, and I'll never forget who I am.

The most important thing in life is to know where you come from, and I know where I come from.

I'm very proud of where I'm from.

Every time I introduce myself, I'm reminded where I came from.

You've got to remember where you come from.