Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.
You never get away from that thing in your hometown that it has over you. You don't outgrow where you come from.
The fundamental, longtime American attitude has been to ask not where a person comes from but what are his personal qualities. On this basis men and women migrated from every quarter of the globe. By their hard work and their enormously varied talents they hewed a great nation out of a wilderness. By their dedication to liberty and equality they created a society reflecting man's most cherished ideas.
I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me.
Don't forget how you got here. Don't Forget.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?
It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again-and can go home again. Not to recover home, no. But to sanctify memory.
…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.
I never forget where I come from. It means everything.
Work hard and follow your dreams, but never forget where you came from.
I think the knowledge of where you come from gives you more of an affinity for understanding different cultures and learning.
Every ongoing character has to start somewhere.
The births of all things are weak and tender and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.
Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.
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.
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.
I'll never forget where I came from, and I'll never forget who I am.
You can't change the fruit without changing the root.
Nationality is belief in a common origin and end.
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
I was born in Hip Hop. That's all I ever needed.
You never forget where you come from.
The biggest thing is, I can never forget where I come from. That's why I wear Miami on my sleeve. I never forget where I grew up.
