John Raese Quotes

West Virginia built this nation... we deserve respect.

Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.

We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didn't know that we were any different from anybody else.

I'm still very much a West Virginia boy. I haven't forgotten my roots, because that's really who I am.

If you go down to Texas, people are real proud about and they rep Texas.

I grew up in rural Arkansas, and I'm afraid that begging is not part of our characteristics.

I always had that adolescent notion that I had to get out of Texas. But I'm really glad I grew up there. It's where I learned to look people in the eye, to be straightforward and polite.

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.

Minnesotans really think they run the whole world, I love that.

If you ain't Texan, I ain't got time for you.

Saying you're from Texas makes you kind of proud.

I've always been proud of being a Hoosier. When I talk to people, I tell them that.

I have a great T-shirt that I received at the New Jersey Hall of Fame when I was inducted. It says - it makes me choke up - it says, 'I'm a Jersey tomato'... I am. I am a Jersey girl and proud of it.

I grew up in Texas, and I think anybody who grows up in the Midwest or in the South, it's just a different way of life.

Well, you know, my grandmother actually grew up, you know, her whole family, my mom's family outside of Parkersburg, West Virginia.

I kind of have found my identity through the music, through the roots music of North Carolina, and kind of realized that that's my identity as a North Carolinian.

Out in Hollywood I'm getting to be regarded as the 'redneck adviser.'

I always say in my camps in Africa, in everything we do, 'My name is Masai and I'm from Nigeria.' My name is Masai and I'm from Nigeria. It's plain and simple. If you're from La Loche or you are from Toronto you should be proud of it.

It's something to be proud of... I'm a proud New South Welshman.

When you say you're from Virginia, when you travel outside of this state and somebody asks where you're from, you say with pride, 'I am from Virginia. I'm very, very proud of it.' You're very, very proud of it. And why is it? It's because of our history, folks. It's because of our history.

I could be anywhere in the country, and people will ask, 'Are you from Jersey?' I'm proud of that. We're a weird breed.

I'm from Louisiana, and I'm used to having space and a yard.

I'm not an urban black person. I'm a country black person.

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.