David Lauren Quotes

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

People will not look forward to posterity who are not anxious to look backward to their ancestry

Whatever you are is because of what your ancestors have done.

Most of my influences are from the past.

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.

Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.

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

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes --our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

The tourists who come to our island take in the Monarchy along with feeding the pigeons in Trafalgar Square.

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

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.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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

The goal for my girls and me has always been about beauty and fashion. Before we ever had the shows, my mom had a store for 40 years in La Jolla, and I grew up working there.

London's where I grew up and had most of my experiences.

We called ourselves Mumford & Sons because we liked the idea of an old-fashioned, family-owned store.

You can see things growing up, be inspired by things. Just because they're not around anymore doesn't mean that you can't take those inspirations and bring them to life and bring them to the next generation.

My father, to me, is an important piece in American history.

The notion of someone who is fitting in or trying to become part of a larger family... It's hard to separate that from my own Jewish roots.

My family were all entrepreneurs, including my parents and grandparents.

Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.

I think the way country music is set up, we all came from a family background.

I have always lived abroad, but inside my family, we always speak in Bosnian and preserve all the Bosnian traditions. So it's always inside me, always in my heart.

'Dust Off And Dance,' the album, was really all about me being in England.

The past is always recycled. I'm just taking what the people I looked up to did and translating it for my generation.