Lucinda Williams Quotes

When I started soul-searching, I tapped into the old me and what I grew up around. I learned a lot about myself, and it really made me appreciate my upbringing.

I'll never forget where I came from. It's always on my mind.

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

I haven't forgotten where I came from.

You can take the guy out of the neighorhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.

All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.

I think it's really important for me not to forget where I came from.

I keep my feet on the ground because of my roots and the way I was raised.

I rejected being a lot of things that I grew up in, and yet I didn't. I got all my tactics from where I grew up... I can talk about all the people in those environments more than I can talk about the teachers at Juilliard or anyone else.

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.

Love your family. Love your country. Never stop learning... And always look back and be grateful to where you came from.

I've been lucky and I recognize that, but I haven't lost sight of that girl I was.

I never forget where I come from. It means everything.

I feel that where I came from made me the actor that I am, and I wouldn't want to trade that with anything else.

You can't forget where you came from.

I never shy away from my childhood and where I was raised because it made me who I am today.

Why am I who I am? It's the way I was raised.

I remind myself to be grateful and remember where I came from.

I've never forgot my roots and where I came from, and I'd not change a thing about my journey.

I may not say it all the time or I may not pray as much as I need to, but I am not forgetting where I came from and how I got to be where I am today.

I'm proud of who I am, and I'm proud I grew up in Puerto Rico.

You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.

The God-given ability that you're given to use, it speaks as much about who and what I was and was around, and the crowd of people that I chose to live my life with, as it does about me.

You never forget where you come from.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.