Rosanne Cash Quotes

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

My grandfather had asked me many times whether I'd like to come to South Carolina with him. He wanted to introduce me to our people down there and I didn't want to go. In those days, the South was still a place where black kids were lynched. Something horrible could happen to you. I've had that feeling my whole life.

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

A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

I love my heritage!

Europe has been in my bones.

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.

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.

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.

And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And I thought I can't be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore.

I wanted to honor my heritage and where I came from and keep the name. It was a tough decision to even change the spelling of it phonetically. I wanted to keep it as close to the original as it can be.

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

I knew I had that Cajun heritage, that Acadian heritage; I just feel it. And my gut says Irish on the other side. Irish and French, that's what I feel. When you're young, it doesn't matter so much, but as you get older, I would suspect part of the ageing process is to wonder about your ancestors - who were they? What were their lives like?

I write for my people.

I am very much of an Indian by heart.

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.

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

My family goes way back in New York. So I am a New Yorker; I feel like a New Yorker. It's in my bones.

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

I'm the granddaughter of immigrants.

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

I've always been fond of my heritage, particularly my Irish heritage. But I'm also from all over the world.

I am proud of where I come from and I will never forget the people I grew up with.