Family Roots Quotes

Nobody can send me to Pakistan. India is my country, and I love my country. Five generations of my family have lived and died on this land, and even my children will live in this country because this is my homeland.

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.

My dad's from Zimbabwe, and my mom is Danish, Irish, and Norwegian, so I have influences from a lot of different places.

My mother is Brazilian, and her grandfather was Italian.

My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.

My father is from the village of Beranci, Macedonia, and my mother is from Greece.

I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family.

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral

My grandparents were always farmers.

My family wasn't in the music business, but they loved music.

I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent.

I grew up on Long Island. It was pretty normal.

I grew up in Rhode Island. Most of my family on both sides is from Rhode Island.

My dad is from Nottingham - although I've only been there twice in my life, with one being when my friend was at university there. I've always found it a friendly place and has a good night life.

My mother is black and my father is Filipino. I got the best of both worlds.

I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them for political reasons, but because, as I see it, most interesting things - social, political, emotional - take place there. It's a bottomless well for an author like me.

My heart is in South Africa, through my mum. My mum being from here, me spending a lot of time here as well, I feel most connected to this part of the world.

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

I've got that Mexican blood in me.

My mom is Filipino and my dad is half Russian and half Irish.

I just love home. I just attached to it since I grew up there my entire life.

When I sat down with all the songs before recording, I realised I'd written a few songs specifically about places in America - there was this song about Detroit and another about Yellowstone National Park. My dad is actually American, so I wrote another song about that side of my family.

There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.