Hugo Chavez Quotes

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.'

We should not ignore or isolate our roots, no matter where we stay.

We have to redefine what we mean when we say, 'Who are your people?' 'Where are you from?'

Greek blood courses through me.

Europe has been in my bones.

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.

I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian.

My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?

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 father's family is German and Czech.

My mother's proud of where she's from, and her history, and her past, and same with my dad. I have roots in Africa. Like, I am from Africa as well as from Germany, and I am very proud of that.

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.

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

You can't run from your roots of who you are.

In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.

My whole identity comes from Pakistan.

I'm from South Sudan, that is where my heart will always be.

Traditions are our roots and a profile of who we are as individuals and who we are as a family. They are our roots, which give us stability and a sense of belonging - they ground us.

People ask where I'm from, and I say 'Los Angeles.' Then they ask again. 'Well, my parents are from Korea.'

Let's treasure our roots, even when we're far away.

I'm very attached to my roots, but I feel Italian more than anything else.

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.