Quotes About Where You Come From

#1. But maybe...maybe you have to know where you come from, and what you are, before you run away to become something new.

Tanya Lloyd Kyi

#2. The past needs to be remembered. If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going.

Terry Pratchett

#3. It's not so much for me where you come from, who you are, what race you are. We're just human beings that are still a work in progress and there's a lot that we've got to overcome, so that we can all be equal.

Gloria Estefan

#4. It's not who you are, but what you're made of. It's not where you come from, but where you're going to.

Carew Papritz

#5. Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.

Karolina Kurkova

#6. If anyone makes you feel less than you are, for the color of you skin, for where you come from, for the gender of the person you love, for the religion you have faith in, stand up, speak up, roar. No silence till we are equal.

Thisuri Wanniarachchi

#7. Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.

Faran Tahir

#8. When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king. Immersed in wonder, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.

Laozi

#9. I have an opportunity to look kids in the face and let them know it's not about where you come from; it's how you use what you have to get to where you need to be.

DeMarcus Ware

#10. You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.

Werner Erhard

#11. f you don't realize the source, you stumble in confusion and sorrow. When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, disinterested, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, dignified as a king

Lao-Tzu

#12. Some people say home is where you come from. But I think it's a place you need to find, like it's scattered and you pick pieces of it up along the way.

Katie Kacvinsky

#13. Don't forget where you come from
Don't die holding on to your words
Cause you know you got a whole world to change
But understand who you got to change first

Macklemore

#14. No matter how bad something gets, no matter where you come from, you can achieve anything. I really do believe that.

Hill Harper

#15. More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.

Amelie Nothomb

#16. If home can't be where you come from, then home is what you make of where you go.

Eleanor Catton

#17. Remember that it is not where you come from, or not even where you are; it is where you are going that matters most.

Bo Bennett

#18. If you don't know where you come from, then you want know when you'er being taken back.

Joseph Lowery

#19. You still haven't said where you come from. Where is your home?"
I said, "I am a sheath, so home is wherenever my shade, my blade is.

Sarah Micklem

#20. It doen't matter what you've been through, where you come from ... none of that matters. What matters is how you choose to love, how you choose to express that love through your work, through your family, through what you have to give to the world ...

Oprah Winfrey

#21. A child who was born with a silver spoon is likely to not appreciate all he is provided with.
And it is likely that a child who grew up from the dust to look down on others once the floods gate of success opens up for him.
It is NOT where you come FROM that matters,
But where you are GOING.

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

#22. One, your hair is stupid. And two, I don't know what it's like where you come from, but if you ever do anything that could get me sent back to Brooklyn again, I won't just break your nose. I will motherfucking kill you.

Lev Grossman

#23. My family's story isn't special. What's special is the America that makes our story possible. Ours is a nation like no other, a place where great journeys can be made in a single generation. No matter who you are or where you come from, the path is always forward.

Julian Castro

#24. It doesn't matter where you come from. There's nothing you can do about it, so don't waste your energy thinking about it. What matters is where you're going. And that, mate, is something you can control.

Tana French

#25. Today, where you come from seems less and less important, as globalization is the new order. I prefer the old world.

Ronnie Apteker

#26. Where you come from is such a huge part of who you are today.

Deborah Ann Woll

#27. It's not about where you come from. It's about who you are

T.J. Klune

#28. It [doesn't matter] what you look like, where you come from, or what you do for a living. All that matters is that we continue to fan the flame of humanity by living our lives as the ultimate creative expression of who we really are.

Janine Shepherd

#29. Age, style, where you come from, where you were born, it's different every time, which, to me, is refreshing because it says that there isn't any one thing, one formula or kind of character that makes a great comedian. Everybody has had a different approach.

Alan King

#30. If you never leave where you come from, I don't think you'll ever figure out who you are, because how much is forced on you? How much of your personality is imposed instead of created? That's why I left. I think people need to leave in order to find their potential.

Katie Kacvinsky

#31. Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her."
"Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean," said Samad tersely, "that it is a good idea.

Zadie Smith

#32. You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul.

Walt Disney

#33. You want something? Go and get it. You have the power to be something. It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from. You have power. So go, be!" From

Claire Contreras

#34. I think American Ballet Theatre is setting that standard now for classical ballet, that you can dream big, and it doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from, what your background is.

Misty Copeland

#35. To me it hit home when the US took away the pledge of allegiance from the kids in school. People that migrate to come to this country can't learn to love a flag that means universal freedom no matter where you come from, you can come here to try and have a better life.

Cristian Machado

#36. We must restore the emotional relationship that people have to the idea of America, that no matter where you come from, no matter where you live, that you have access to the same opportunities that somebody who is born in privilege.

Howard Schultz

#37. Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It's the place where you become yourself.

Pico Iyer

#38. What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.

Tyler Perry

#39. Do not let where you come from define you, but never forget the values you learned from your close community.

Anthony Carmona

#40. How can this be real?" I whispered. "I mean you ... you ... where you come from. Your world. It is so beyond everything I've ever known. And you would ... you would take me to the Pumpkin Ball?"
"Try and stop me.

Serra Elinsen

#41. Sometimes you come from your community, and then you rise. It's like, okay, when do you get back rooted into your community? A lot of times you can rise in the ranks and maybe leave the core of where you come from.

Common

#42. Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there.

Dennis Covington

#43. I'm not against being proud of where you come from but I feel like sometimes the divisions are a little too bold and it hurts us more than it helps us.

Avey Tare

#44. Sometimes I think that truth is a place. In my mind, it is like a city: there can be a hundred roads, a thousand paths, that will all take you, eventually, to the same place. It does not matter where you come from. If you walk toward the truth, you will reach it, whatever path you take. Calum

Neil Gaiman

#45. You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you can make up a new one.

Sarah Addison Allen

#46. I wanted to be a vet, a nurse, a chef - I mean, anything but the music industry. But once I hit high school, the bug really bit me. You can't deny where you come from and what's in your genes, and music definitely was. I haven't looked back since.

Hillary Scott

#47. If you don't know where you come from, it's difficult to determine where you are.- It's even more difficult to plan where you are going.

Joseph Lowery

#48. That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think.

Walter Salles

#49. Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it

Flannery O'Connor

#50. You can dream big and it doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from.

Misty Copeland

#51. It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

Alexander McQueen

#52. Are cobwebs a treat where you come from?

Darren Shan

#53. You can ache for where you come from, and it's homesickness. A relationship, and it's heartbreak. But is there a word for missing your friends like that?

Emery Lord

#54. Where you come from, what you look like, and what your past holds do not define you as an individual
you are what you make yourself to be.

Kat Von D.

#55. It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you - always.

Oprah Winfrey

#56. What has always made our country special is that it doesn't matter where you come from; it matters where you're going. Our job is to make certain the pathways are open to both our boys and our girls.

Condoleezza Rice

#57. In the Conservative Party we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us it is not who you are, who your family is or where you come from that matters, but what you are and what you can do for your country that counts.

Margaret Thatcher

#58. Identity the greatest thing that ever happened to all humanity on earth. Identity the source of knowing who you are and where you come from. Identity the source of understanding yourself and makes you proud to be the person who you are, the daughter, the son of the Most High God.

Euginia Herlihy

#59. When you've said all of the bad things and all of the good things you haven't been saying, you will find that what you've really been withholding is, "I love you." You don't have to go looking for love when it is where you come from.

Werner Erhard

#60. We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.

Trevor Noah

#61. I think what I've learned out of this lifetime is you should be proud of where you come from.

Kid Rock

#62. We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men ... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

Maya Angelou

#63. It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#64. It's really important to go back to where you come from.

Henry Thomas

#65. In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

Aasif Mandvi

#66. You never forget where you come from.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#67. Doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have ... All you need to have is faith in God, and undying passion for what you do, what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful at whatever you put your mind to.

Stephen Curry

#68. Because English is the universal language. No matter where you come from, if you sing in English, you can cross over to the world.

Lara Fabian

#69. When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother...When your mother's gone, you've lost your past. It's so much more than love. Even when there's no love, it's so much more than anything else in your life. I did love my mother, but I didn't know how much until she was gone.

Anna Quindlen

#70. Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.

Ron Franscell

#71. We Democrats believe in an America where no matter who you are or where you come from, you should have an equal shot at success.

Hillary Clinton

#72. We may have different backgrounds, but we believe in the same dream that says this is a country where anything's possible. No matter who you are. No matter where you come from.

Barack Obama

#73. It is very important to go home if you want your work to be whole. You don't have to move in with your parents again and collect a weekly allowance, but you must claim where you come from and look deep into it. Come to honor and embrace it, or at the least, accept it.

Natalie Goldberg

#74. Can't choose where you come from, Seth. My boys and you know that better than anyone. But you can choose where you end up, and how you get there.

Nora Roberts

#75. 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.

Anthony Burgess

#76. America was the place that said, 'It doesn't matter where you come from, it doesn't matter what your last name is, it doesn't matter if you drink cortaditos, or lattes, or coffee with milk. Here, if you work hard, anything is possible.'

Cristina Saralegui

#77. There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from.

Garrison Keillor

#78. There's no point apologizing about where you come from.

Colin Greenwood

#79. We need to empower every single child no matter who you are, no matter where you come from to have the best education and the best future.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#80. It does not matter where you come from, if you walk toward the truth you will reach it, whatever path you take.

Neil Gaiman

#81. It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.

Terry Pratchett

#82. I feel a sudden wave of homesickness, but not the kind that makes you sad. The kind that reminds you of who you are and where you come from.

Emily Giffin

#83. If you're truly playing improvised music, I don't care who you are or where you come from, you don't know what's going to happen. I feel essentially we really don't know anything anyway, most of the times we're just guessing.

Hamid Drake

#84. Where you come from does matter
but not nearly as much as where you are headed.

Jodi Picoult

#85. There wasn't a lot of R&B cats doing songs at 120 beats per minute before 'Closer,' which I take full credit and responsibility for. That's all good, but it was an experiment. You experiment with something, if it goes good, cool, but you never forget where you come from and R&B is where I come from.

Ne-Yo

#86. American? Indian? I don't know what these words mean. In Italy, it is all about blood, family, where you come from. I'm asked where I am from. I'm from nowhere; I always was, but now I am happy knowing it.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#87. Believe in yourself, Anything is possible no matter who you are, or where you come from. Find your path and stay on it, if you want something bad enough, nothing can stop you.

Eddie Spears

#88. Don't forget who you are and where you come from.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#89. Understanding where you come from means taking a good hard look at your past and giving yourself the freedom to learn from it.

Debra Fileta

#90. I'm living proof you can excel regardless of where you come from.

Keith Sweat

#91. I only hope that for right now, you remember that there is no place for hate in a happy life. I don't care who you are, where you come from or what God you believe in. I can guarantee you that if you hate, you will never achieve true happiness.

A.S. King

#92. You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of the thickest onion.

Catherynne M Valente

#93. The measurement in this race is not where you come from, it is "what do you fight for."

John F. Kerry

#94. It's amazing, especially coming from the small city of Paterson, to have all of those people just being behind you and supporting your career and understanding where you come from.

Victor Cruz

#95. You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.

Angelique Kidjo

#96. It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or where you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight!

Barack Obama

#97. You should never forget where you come from, never forget the struggle, never forget the lives that were lost.

Nancy Ring

#98. I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

Frank Gehry

#99. Where I come from, family's defined as those who don't screw you over a paycheck. Blood makes no difference. If you can trust them with your life and know that they'll be there come whatever hell rains down, then they're your family.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#100. I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.

Mads Mikkelsen