Bon Scott Quotes

You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.

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

To speak about yourself, you must first be able to assemble a sense of origin. For descendants of slaves, this has proved one of the most precious losses of self-knowledge we've endured.

I feel I have a responsibility to carry out the immigrant story, since it's one that I hold very dear to my heart, since my story is similar in a lot of ways.

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.

I love my heritage!

You can't run from your roots.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

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

Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.

I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

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

I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.

To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities.

I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.

When you think about your heritage, you think about toughness and hard work.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

My parents have always been very concerned of making sure we know who we are and where we come from. I have to give them credit for that. Knowing your roots is quite important.

Where you come from is such a huge part of who you are today.

I realized if I didn't start talking to my relatives, asking questions, thinking back to my own beginnings, there would come a time when those people wouldn't be around to help me look back and remember.

It is important to know where you come from.

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.

The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

We should all know our family's story, all the more so if nobody tells it to us directly and we have to find it out for ourselves.