Top 100 My Roots Quotes
#1. I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New Englanders, and so, in my writing, I've been drawn back there to the landscape and the light and the type of personality that's revealed.
Elizabeth Strout
#2. I've been chastised for going into mixed martial arts and backing out. But the reason I backed out was the terms - they wanted me ready to fight in four weeks, but you've got to be out of your mind. So I decided to go back to my roots, back to wrestling.
Kurt Angle
#3. The fans in Canada have been there since day one. They're the originals. When people say that's your roots, that's literally my roots. I've just cut this tree off and replanted it somewhere else and it started growing. But the roots are there.
Russell Peters
#4. I want to try different things but, most importantly, always be true to my roots and keep it organic. I'm never going to leave bachata behind. I'm always going to be a bachatero first.
Romeo Santos
#5. Poland and my roots are very important for me. That's why I decided to make a feature film in Poland, and with only Polish money.
Malgorzata Szumowska
#6. I had an old band in Scandinavia, the beginning of Mercyful Fate, so it reminds me of my roots as a teenager. We used to play songs like Grinder and all that. It's really like being a teenager again. (Laughs)
Yenz Leonhardt
#7. Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots.
Smokey Robinson
#8. Do you want to know the real reason I came back, Alix? It was because of you. You're my roots. Wherever you are would be home to me.
Katherine Allred
#10. There is a conception about me that I am a playback singer and I sing for albums or for films only, but my roots are in bhajans. Even when I was in school, I used to win competitions for ghazals and bhajans.
Sonu Nigam
#11. My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.
Chico Hamilton
#12. Although I was raised in Canada and the U.K., my roots are in Egypt through my father, in a family line that stretches back generations and runs along the Nile, from the concrete of Cairo to the coast of Alexandria.
Shereen El Feki
#13. I never want to abandon my roots. I want to give my past and the history of painting the importance it deserves, including the masters like Rembrandt, who built up the surface of the canvas with transparent layers.
Jose Parla
#14. People wonder why I love Africa so much. I say this is where I was born and raised. My roots are in Africa; that's were I developed.
Dikembe Mutombo
#15. I'm sort of a Southerner because those are my roots, but my parents are from Iowa.
Geneva Carr
#16. Whenever the cloud of ego threatens to engulf me, I remind myself of my roots. It helps keeping my feet on the ground.
Faraaz Kazi
#17. I'm not a fighter, but in my mind I'm fighting every day. 'What's new? What am I doing?' I'm fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren't samurai, but my soul is.
Masaharu Morimoto
#18. Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.
Juliette Binoche
#19. My roots are ready, but I'll manage to grow only with the help of
others. Not just you or J. or my wife but people I've never met
Paulo Coelho
#21. I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.
Julie Delpy
#22. All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West.
James Norman Hall
#23. I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising,
Miriam Makeba
#24. But a lot of my training can be done in Aston - a lot of the hard work, so to speak. But a new atmosphere, a new place, and it's good for me because I didn't want to get stuck in one spot, so coming home is good, back and forth, you know, where my roots are.
Elvis Stojko
#25. I'll never lose my roots. I think I'm too close to my family for that. I still make my trip back to Nebraska every year, and I still love going back to Texas where I grew up, as well. I've just kind of had to mature a little bit more and get used to a little bit different style of life.
Andy Roddick
#26. Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.
Aretha Franklin
#27. I didn't truly understand the depth of my roots until I was old enough to wonder and care.
Aeriel Miranda
#28. I have lain long here in your mind, longer than any nightmare has before me. I have sunk my roots into your worst imaginings and feasted on your memories. I know you, child.
J. Aleksandr Wootton
#29. Although I have started my solo activities but this doesnt mean I'll give up my roots, SS501 is my root .
Kim Hyun-joong
#30. By the age of nine, I felt like a plant, constantly being repotted without enough time for my roots to recover, ever weakening.
Sasha Martin
#31. I'm very proud of my roots, and I would never try not to be who I am.
Rebecca Ferguson
#32. My roots are on the live performing stage, so while I enjoy making films and the other things that I do, when I get on stage, I feel at home; I'm comfortable.
Gregory Hines
#33. I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.
Joe Manganiello
#34. I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people where I'm from.
Coco Lee
#35. I will make rigid my roots and branches. It is not now my turn to burst into leaves and flowers.
W.B.Yeats
#36. I just try to keep it fresh. I try to keep it interesting. The truth is my roots are independently spirited dramas that are small, and I will always go back to that well, because that's where I broke out of. But I'm going to keep doing as many different movies as I possibly can.
Nicolas Cage
#37. My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.
Miranda Richardson
#38. I just go back to my roots. I was literally born 26 miles from Martinsville High School where Coach Wooden grew up, and then my dad coached there for four years.
Steve Alford
#39. All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
Alan Lightman
#40. It's that blasted Independent Province!" the fourth said. "It's been chaos since they gained sovereignty. I've felt it in my roots since. A war is coming.
Lucian Bane
#41. People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.
Katee Sackhoff
#42. The Almighty has plans for us to make a place so we can go on and make a difference. It all has to do with my faith; I am deeply religious. It goes back to my roots, to my mom and my dad.
Dikembe Mutombo
#43. It's funny; as I get older I'm reverting to my roots - I want to plant stuff.
Melissa McCarthy
#44. Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.
Brenda Strong
#45. Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It's the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning.
Juanes
#46. When people ask me where my roots are, I look down at my feet, and I see the roots of my soul grasping the earth. They are here ... in the Southwest ... I still live in New Mexico.
Rudolfo Anaya
#47. The King sat down and I noticed that a brood of small transparent roots grew from the soles of his feet. 'Yes, I am also errant. My roots can find no soil and this is why they are visible.
Leonora Carrington
#48. If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life
And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots
Remember
That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms
And my roots will set off to seek another land
Pablo Neruda
#49. I keep my feet on the ground because of my roots and the way I was raised.
Percy Sledge
#50. I grew up fundamentalist, evangelical, Protestant. Those are my roots, and they are good roots. But it means the Pharisees are my people. I grew up with an image of God that was not helpful
largely the face of my father expanded.
William P. Young
#51. When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.
Edward Ruscha
#52. I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.
Barbara Lynn
#53. When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.
Wanda Sykes
#54. Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.
Robert Carlyle
#55. I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.
G. Willow Wilson
#56. My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.
Pat Mastelotto
#57. My roots are Scottish. My dad's parents are from Scotland, and my mum's dad is Scots.
Katharine Isabelle
#58. When the Killers first came out, a lot of people thought we were English, and it touched a chord in me, because my roots are very American.
Brandon Flowers
#59. The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.
Andrew Bird
#60. You make my dance daring enough to finish. No more timidity. Let fruit fall, and wind turn my roots up in the air, done with patient waiting.
Rumi
#61. I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
OMI
#62. I went to high school in Texas for one year, my senior year. My parents wanted me to get out of Stockholm because I was running with the wrong crew. They wanted me to get back to my roots.
Joel Kinnaman
#63. I fired a bunch of people and kind of went back to my roots. I fired my agent - I had this big, fancy agent and a big fancy manager and a big fancy lawyer - and I went back to my first agent and said, "I want to go back to just being an actor."
Matthew Lillard
#65. I journeyed alone for almost ten years before I found home. Adoptions are like very delicate gardening with transplants and grafts. Mine took hold, rooted, and bloomed, even though there were inevitable adjustments to the new soil and climate. Yet I have not forgotten where my roots started.
Ashley Rhodes-Courter
#66. I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.
Rocco DiSpirito
#67. They shake hands - the solid, down-to-earth man and the restless, unpredictable lightning in the sky. I feel like a tree exposed to the elements, my roots clinging to the soil, my branches flirting with heaven.
Leylah Attar
#68. I want to be reborn as a tree; that way I can plant my roots down, never move and can never be separated from the ones I love.
Son Eun-seo
#69. Jade is my everything: my wings, my roots, my sky. I am in love with her.
And she tried to kill me.
Now that is some messed up shit right now.
Rochelle Maya Callen
#70. I love LA, but we don't really have beautiful natural things to look at. I just want to be in nature and go back to my roots and just see beautiful things, that's really all I want.
Alana Haim
#71. [The] Hopi earth does contain my roots and I am, indeed, from that land. Because the roots are there, I will find them. But when I find them, [my father] said, I must rebuild myself as a Hopi. I am not merely a conduit, but a participant. I am not a victim, but a woman.
Wendy Rose
#72. My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
Harland Williams
#73. I love the urban comedies, because they keep you famous, keep you having fun, and keep you in love with the business. Those are my roots. I'll always love doing those.
Terry Crews
#74. My roots are very closely tied to the DNA of the brand. Growing up in Serbia where women are unapologetically very feminine, I came to London and realised that I wanted to keep this feminine element but give it a twist and challenge ideas of classical beauty.
Roksanda Ilincic
#75. You see, Jarret?" she said softly. "It can't work. We want different things. You want to follow the wind where it leads, and I want to dig my roots deep. You're a river, and I'm a tree. The tree can never follow the river, and the river can never stay with the tree.
Sabrina Jeffries
#76. I am a fan of today's sound as long as we don't get too slick, and yet I am very reverent of my roots.
Wynonna Judd
#77. It's not like if I play in big places I won't be happy. But I don't want to start adapting to what's in style to make my music. I want to stay true to my roots, to keep making the music I love, that comes from my soul. And if there are people who want to listen to it, I'm happy.
Juanes
#78. I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.
China Machado
#79. 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.
Sela Ward
#80. I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact - those are my roots, professionally.
Chris Noth
#81. I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pilllow.
Francisco X. Alarcon
#83. I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
Jack Wild
#84. I guess, like most foreigners, when you're away, you see your own culture being even more strange. But where I come from and my roots mean a lot. I miss my family and my friends. Something I've realized as I've been traveling is that it's more about the actual people than the actual place.
Alicia Vikander
#85. I know my roots and I cannot forget the journey I made.
Maria Sharapova
#86. I am trying to stay away from this position of me "returning to my roots." As if my roots are that I'm only comfortable working on low-budget, small films. That's not the case at all.
Spike Lee
#87. I certainly feel I'm carrying the flag for Britain. I feel an honour in that but, at the same time, knowing my roots are in Africa, I'd like that to help motivate people from there. Even coming from a third world country, it is possible to get to the top of wherever they want to be.
Chris Froome
#88. I am strong as steel and my roots are planted deep in this southern soil. Time may have weathered me, but I will always bend with the wind
Nancy B. Brewer
#89. Country music ... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak.
Mick Jagger
#90. It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?
Kate Bush
#91. Digging through my roots to understand the way my branches grew.
Saleem Haddad
#92. My roots are firmly planted in the glory of nature. The soil beneath my feet heartens each step.
Amy Leigh Mercree
#93. I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must design what pleases me in a way that is naturally linked to my roots and the country of my origin.
Oscar Niemeyer
#94. 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.
Cory Booker
#95. All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
#96. The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.
Isabel Allende
#97. I base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow it all came together, and that is what I am playing now.
Tyler Hilton
#98. It is because my roots are so strong that I can fly.
Mira Nair
#99. I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots.
Luis Guzman
#100. Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
