John Sergeant Wise Quotes

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

When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family.

My family in St. Louis brings me to my roots.

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.

My family came over from Spain about nine generations ago. I was born in San Diego, but by the time I was four days old, I was on a flight back to Spain because that's where my family was living at the time.

My parents moved from ranch to ranch, valley to valley, town to town, but our roots in Fowler never really faded. For me, it's a place of history, stories and songs, not just facts and figures.

Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was where I came from, what I really understood, the base against which all else was measured.

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

My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.

I love Cleveland, and I love going back home. That's where my family is. That's where my roots are.

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

I spent a lot of time thinking that I was some kind of foundling, that I had been a changeling, that I had been found under a bush somewhere, and that I couldn't possibly be kin - but the more I live, the more I feel absolutely like I come out of my family. I'm a sort of strange natural progression.

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

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.

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

I enjoy where I'm from. That's me. And my family never let me get far away.

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

What does 'home' really mean? Is it merely geography, where you were born? Could it include straddling two continents and cultures? Or perhaps it's a place with a spiritual magnetism - a feeling toward a culture or people - that's tough to put into words?

What any immigrant is after is a taste of home.

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.

Nobody can send me to Pakistan. India is my country, and I love my country. Five generations of my family have lived and died on this land, and even my children will live in this country because this is my homeland.

I'm sticking true to my roots.

Everyone knows I'm very close to my family, my hometown, my homeland.

I am very wanted in my homeland. I am part of the scenery, part of the region. I resemble it.