Clint Dempsey Quotes

My mother told me when I left for college, 'Never forget your roots,' and I never have.

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

I am filled with so much sincerity and gratitude to know where I came from and what I'm doing now.

I have to remind myself sometimes to look back and see what brought me to where I'm at.

It keeps me humble just to know exactly where I came from and all the hard work I had to put in to be here. It feels good to reminisce about the past.

I have a lot of family in South Africa, but I grew up in California. I feel like my name keeps me connected to a long line of people that have been through a heck of a lot. It reminds me to stay grateful, and it reminds me to try and step my game up if I'm slacking.

I love my nice things, but I'm still the Welsh family girl.

I'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving.

I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

Every year, I appreciate life more because of the deeper understanding of what it took to get this far.

Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

My family are too grounded, and I will go home to visit. I always need my dose of Liverpool to keep me grounded.

Things that came before, people and things and experiences - that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.

I love my friends and my past, and it's made me who I am.

I'll never lose my roots. I think I'm too close to my family for that. I still make my trip back to Nebraska every year, and I still love going back to Texas where I grew up, as well. I've just kind of had to mature a little bit more and get used to a little bit different style of life.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

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

All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.

I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out that's going to do that - it's looking in.

I think a lot of people, even if you're not Asian, you go to your place of origin where your family comes from, and you get this sense of, 'Wow - people look like me and talk like me and treat me like their son in the stores and like a cousin in the restaurants.'

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

My mom lives in New York still in the home that I grew up in.

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