Top 100 Quotes About Where You Came From
#1. When you move away from where you grew up, I think you tend to have even more pride of where you came from.
Kristopher Belman
#2. If you don't know where your're going, you should know where you came from.
Sue Monk Kidd
#3. As for the coldness, I have never seen it like this. I mean, coldness that makes like it wants to kill you, like it's telling you, with its snow, that you should go back to where you came from.
NoViolet Bulawayo
#4. Whether it's from the biggest, most powerful city, or from the dinkiest little podunk town, there is a certain attachment and connection, and yes, pride about where you came from.
Cheech Marin
#5. Forget the past, it's gone, but glance back occasionally to remind yourself where you came from and where you are going.
Chloe Thurlow
#6. It is important that you know who you are, where you stand, where you came from, what you have, what you can do, and who is with you.
J. Grant Howard
#7. Growing up is like walking through glass doors that only open one way
you can see where you came from but can't go back.
Meg Medina
#8. Never forget where you came from, Gina Attaviano, Alessandro said to her before he died. Then it will always be easy.
Paullina Simons
#9. If there ever comes a time that you forget where you came from, you've gone too far.
Tanya Masse
#10. You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.
Viggo Mortensen
#11. It's an important thing to remember where you came from.
Michael Bolton
#12. My mother gave me one piece of advice that stuck with me. She said don't forget where you came from.
Eva Longoria
#13. England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#14. Never forget where you came from. That's what I think when I walk into a cave.
Demetri Martin
#15. You go from Olympic wrestling into pro wrestling, and it's a very difficult transition, but if you make it, you can earn a great living while at the same time giving amateur wrestling a lot of exposure by being on TV every week. Fans know where you came from.
Kurt Angle
#16. Go back home where you came from. This country is mine, and I intend to stay here and to raise this country full of grown people.
Sitting Bull
#17. And then one day, you too disappear. Your armchair is still there. But instead of you sitting in it, there is just an empty space. You went back to where you came from just a few years ago.
Eckhart Tolle
#18. Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.
Richard Bach
#19. Don't forget where you came from, but always remember where you're going.
Luke Taylor
#20. You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here.
Sarah Addison Allen
#21. Even if you do make tons of new friends," I told him, "try not to forget where you came from, okay?
Sarah Dessen
#22. People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.
Eminem
#23. The best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you can always remember where you came from, how hard walking could sometimes be.
Ally Condie
#24. Go where the situation takes you, but never forget where you came from, where you belong and the direction of where you entered in.
Auliq Ice
#25. Why is nostalgia such a bad thing? Nostalgia is a longing to return. If you really loved where you came from, if, in essence, you really loved yourself, how can you not want that to exist? It's like wanting your parents keep living.
Melissa Holbrook Pierson
#26. If you never leave where you came from, I don't think you'll ever figure out who you are.
Katie Kacvinsky
#27. Work hard and follow your dreams, but never forget where you came from.
Vanessa Hudgens
#28. It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?
Jodi Picoult
#29. You have to remember where you came from, and I definitely have enough brothers and sisters to kick me in the butt whenever I get out of line!
Julianne Hough
#30. I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing.
David Blaine
#31. New York doesn't care who you are or where you came from.
Roselyn Sanchez
#32. DON'T FOR GET WHERE YOU CAME FROM SO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR GOING.
Edward Loffredo
#33. What started as a whisper
Slowly turned into a scream
Searching for an answer
Where the question is unseen
I don't know where you came from
And I don't know where you've gone
Old friends become old strangers
Between the darkness and the dawn
Ben Harper
#34. I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.
Ally Condie
#35. True self-esteem is realizing that you are valuable because you were born. No matter where you came from, what color your skin is, what people say about your family or what mean things people may have done to you, because you were born, you are important and you matter.
Oprah Winfrey
#36. So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#37. Parents have subtle ways of humbling you, of reminding you of your origins, perhaps by showing up at the moment of your greatest glory and reminding you where you came from and demonstrating that you still have some of it between your toes.
Frank Pittman
#38. It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from.
Colum McCann
#39. The darkness behind doesn't worry me; neither do the stars ahead. I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth so you always remember where you came from, how hard walking could be.
Ally Condie
#40. We all hurt. We all love. We're the same. And your past, who you live with, where you came from, it doesn't have to matter. You're creating your own future, and I want to see where the road forward takes you.
Elle Kennedy
#41. No matter where you came from, there was something, someone out in the world or under the bed that frightened you as a child. The dark shapes that lurked on the edge of the world, the ones you knew were real because even adults feared them
because the adults had grown up fearing them.
Erin M. Evans
#42. I got this Jesus tattoo on my wrist when I was 18 because I know that it's always going to be a part of me. When I'm playing, it's staring right back at me, saying, 'Remember where you came from.'
Katy Perry
#43. Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.
Harry S. Truman
#44. Now the bigots have to get creative. Good luck coming up with slurs for Chechens. Go back where you came from, Ushanka head.
Aasif Mandvi
#45. I learned in America that Americans are into results. Americans don't care where you came from, what your family did, what school you graduated from. They care about if you can deliver the results. That's what makes America the country it is.
Mark Burnett
#47. It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.
Ella Fitzgerald
#48. You leave your neighborhood but you never want to forget where you came from," he says. "I have the best of best worlds. I'm street smart and book smart. You put that together in an African-American male and that's dangerous.
Anonymous
#49. Oh my fadder and I are one, " she said, "just me, just him, and dear, if you are wise you will run, run back to where you came from, run quickly, because to stay will mean worse than your death. No one who dies in Derry really dies. You knew that before; believe it now.
Stephen King
#50. What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you've lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?
Jodi Picoult
#51. You must know where you came from yesterday, know where you are today, to know where you're going tomorrow." -Cree saying
Trace A. DeMeyer
#52. Never forget who you are, never forget where you came from and why you are here on this beautiful planet.
Euginia Herlihy
#53. You could forget who you were if you forgot where you came from, and sometimes the innkeeper's daughter from Emond's Field seemed a stranger to her.
Robert Jordan
#54. Don't ever forget where you came from--especially if you don't even know where you are going.
Sara Marie Hogg
#55. Has anyone ever noticed that when ethnic Australians excel in sport they are heralded "Aussies"; but when something goes wrong they are thrown the "go back to where you came from" line? WAKE UP RACISTS.
Miya Yamanouchi
#56. Create your own job. Become the master of what you do. Fully imerse yourself in your culter. Be humble. You are never above having to pack boxes. Never forget where you came from. And always be polite. Good old-fashioned manners can get you very far. -Jenne Lomardo
Sophia Amoruso
#58. It was important to remember who you were and where you came from, no matter how successful you became.
Candace Bushnell
#59. I still don't know where you came from," he says. "Some days it's like you just fell from the sky."
"Some days I feel like I did." I say.
Lauren DeStefano
#60. We forget: In life, it doesn't matter what happens to you or where you came from. It matters what you do with what happens and what you've been given.
Ryan Holiday
#61. It makes you a better person to know where you came from, because whereever you go, there is somebody in some town, city, hamlet, whatever, that has the same dreams you have.
Jamie Farr
#62. The place where you came from ain't there any more, and where you had in mind to go is cancelled out. This place you are now - inside your daddy's house - is nothing but a cardboard box I can knock down any time. You know that and always did know it. You hear me?
Joyce Carol Oates
#63. You've been given status today, but never forget where you came from. You came from dirt and will return to dirt. You will be on that day as you began: just you and Him.
Yasmin Mogahed
#64. What you believe about who you are, where you came from, affects your whole worldview.
Ken Ham
#65. In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.
Condoleezza Rice
#66. Play this game like the 8 year old you used to be, dreaming to play in the show! Heart, passion, and fire! Remember where you came from!
Bryce Harper
#67. It can be annoying not to know who you are, where you came from, or what you're doing. To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing.
Dallas Roberts
#68. Realise this: one day your soul
will depart from your body and you will
be drawn behind the curtain that floats between us
and the unknown. While you wait for that moment, be happy,
because you don't know where you came from and
you don't know where you will be going.
Omar Khayyam
#69. If you keep gathering those reins, lass,
you and the horse are going to end up back
where you came from.
Maya Banks
#70. [In] the United States, we've always been held together by the belief that it doesn't matter where you came from. It matters where you're going.
Condoleezza Rice
#71. Set a goal and make a commitment to meet that goal. Do the best you can, but never forget your roots, never forget where you came from. After you have succeeded, look back and see if there are others that you might help to achieve what you have accomplished.
Larry Holmes
#72. ... Without memory how will you ever find your way back to where you came from?
Michael Ende
#73. You amaze me and scare me. I can't figure where you came from or how you got to be what you are, but you couldn't have come where you're more needed.
Dean Koontz
#74. Why don't you focus on where you're going and less on where you came from?
Amy Harmon
#75. The reason to have history is to be able to say, 'This is where you came from. This is what it cost. This is what happened to us. This is what we fought against. This is what we did when we won. This is who we are.
Glenn Beck
#76. You should have a picture of yourself as a kid in your home so that you remember where you came from.
John Mayer
#77. It doesn't matter where you came from, it doesn't matter how poor you are, it doesn't matter where your family was. It all doesn't matter. You can achieve anything if you have really clear goals and if you work really hard to learn what you need to learn.
Brian Tracy
#79. You always want to know what happened before you. It's a human instinct to know where you came from and what preceded you.
Russell Freedman
#80. You can't really know who you are unless you understand where you came from.
Don Aker
#81. We don't want your kind in this city.
Take your pack of animals and go back to where you came from.
Mark my words
if you open this club, it will be the last thing you ever do.
Blood will run.
Sara Humphreys
#82. Johnny Depp gave me the best advice. He said, 'Keep your feet on the ground. Stay grounded. Remember where you came from.'
Sam Claflin
#83. You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.
Julia Roberts
#84. She put the steaming mutton down in front and he smacked his lips 'they taught you something where you came from, anyway,' he said. 'I always say there's two things women ought to do by instinct, and cookin's one of 'em.
Daphne Du Maurier
#85. What you are or where you came from is not important. It is who you are and the choices you make, that determine who you will become. If you can look inward and be satisfied, the opinions of others should melt away.
J.D. Stroube
#86. Professor Einstein, every Christian in America will immediately reply to you, 'Take your crazy, fallacious theory of evolution and go back to Germany where you came from, or stop trying to break down the faith of a people who gave you a welcome when you were forced to flee your native land.' The
Richard Dawkins
#87. I think it would be best if you came down from there before I explained that."
"I think I'll stay right where I am, thank you," I said. "And you, you stay where you are, or I'll ... I don't know what I'll do, but it will really hurt. You, I mean.
Molly Harper
#88. No matter what happens to you in life, you just roll with it. And then, when we went back to shoot Eclipse, I went to Quileute and taught some acting to the kids, and just got to spend some time in the community, which was great because it gave me an idea of where Emily came from.
Tinsel Korey
#89. You can't hold it in forever," Colton said, apropos of nothing. "Yes, I can." I had to. "You'll go crazy. It'll come out, one way or another." "Better crazy than broken." I wasn't sure where that came from, hadn't thought it or meant to say it. "You're not broken. You're hurting.
Jasinda Wilder
#90. Some of those things come out and you don't know where they came from - somebody's leaking totally false information. They follow you for years and you have to be like, "I don't know anything about that."
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
#91. At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#92. [Latin] allows you to adore words, take them apart and find out where they came from.
Dr. Seuss
#93. A female dragon's tail is of the utmost importance to her. Male dragons find them irresistible. After all where do you think the term 'Getting some tail' came from?
Sully Tarnish
#94. Calvin: Dad where do babies come from?
Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions.
Calvin: I came from Sears?
Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart - almost as good and a lot cheaper!
Bill Watterson
#95. You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which begets color and subtle washes of tone. Most great graphic artists come from areas with prevalent sun, where line and shadow are paramount.
Al Hirschfeld
#96. Love knows not from where you came, what religion you are, or even your name. Discover it and you will be whole, for when you do you have found your soul.
Charles F. Glassman
#97. She's a jellyfisher: You have a conversation with her that seems all nice and friendly, then you suddenly feel like you've been stung and you don't know where it came from.
Helen Fielding
#98. Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.
Jamie Farr
#99. Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
Terry Pratchett
#100. Where did you get Ultima's name?" many ask me. "That was her name when she came to me," I answer. From that first fortuitous meeting I have trained myself to act as a dream catcher. I don't seek characters, they seem to come to me asking me to tell their stories.
Rudolfo Anaya
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