Sam Elliott Quotes

I grew up in L.A., but I was the only one in my family born there.

When I get some time off, I like to go back to my roots in the North East. My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

I was born in Nashville, but my whole family is from East Texas, so I consider myself a dual citizen.

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral

My mother was a Swede who grew up in Denmark. When I go there, I visit the street where she grew up and look at her house, which is still there, and the snowberry bush, from which she ate some berries and had to have her stomach pumped.

I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent.

I like the fact that I'm from the South and that I have this rich history behind me. I come from a family of storytellers. They can't just tell you how someone went to the store. They have to tell you who they saw, what they were wearing, what they said, what they had in their grocery cart.

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

My mother was Indian, brought up in Delhi. My grandparents were born in Bow and Poplar.

Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side.

The old joke in my family is that the last person who isn't from New York was coming from Russia.

My dad's family comes from the North, and my mother's family comes from somewhere around Carmarthenshire.

My family came to Newark in the '20s. We've been there a long, long time. My father's name was LeRoi, the French-ified aspect of it, because his first name was Coyette, you see. They come from South Carolina.

It's true of Irish Catholic families. They're big on story telling and big on saving stories from one generation to the next.

Years after my parents made the United States their home, I had the joy of traveling to the Dominican Republic with my kids. They saw where it all started and how their grandparents' values survived and thrived in America.

I'm just so proud to be from San Francisco and to have a family history there. It's only two generations back, but still, it's two generations in San Francisco. I love it. I'm so proud of it.

I'm Cuban. My parents are immigrants.

I wanted to honor my heritage and where I came from and keep the name. It was a tough decision to even change the spelling of it phonetically. I wanted to keep it as close to the original as it can be.

My mother is Brazilian, and her grandfather was Italian.

I'm really in touch with my Italian roots. My mom's whole side of the family is there.

Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event, as if it had only just ended.

My life! That's a long story, too. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, like half of the world, I think.

One time, I went to school, and they asked us all to find out where our roots were. It's goin' around the class, and the kids were going, 'I'm Swedish-German' or 'I'm English-Irish.' They got to me and I said, 'Pure Kentuckian.'

My Indigenous heritage is something I hold close to my heart.

I had family in Carolina who were very hood and talked differently in this sort of Southern cadence.