Avi Kaplan Quotes

It's always good to go home. It's strengthening to see your past and know you have someplace to go where you're part of a people.

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

I love my nice things, but I'm still the Welsh family girl.

I have my husband and children near me in Rome, and I feel this is where we are temporarily belonging. But personally, all my life, I have felt the absence of a sense of history.

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.

My family in St. Louis brings me to my roots.

Though I had been born in Maryland, Montana was where I truly belonged.

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

No matter where I go I know where I came from.

I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.

Lowell is my home. It is where I drew my first breath. It is where I will always derive a sense of place and a sense of belonging

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.

I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there.

Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.

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

A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

You can take the guy out of the neighorhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.

One's native land! There should one live! There die!

My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.

As an adopted person, once you find out about that 'other' side of yourself, it's almost like you find out who you really are.

I've known where my heritage is from all along.

I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?

I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with. Wherever I go, La Castellane is where I want to go back to.