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
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
I’m not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in the world as one place. You have to think in a global sense. Cinema is a global endeavour. My roots are in England but my endeavours are worldwide. – Jeremy Thomas
I tell my kids and my grandkids, ‘Never forget where you came from. Never forget your roots.’ My grandkids, they didn’t go through the hard times as much as other ones in our family did. One thing is to just never forget where you came from and you never forget that nothing is more important than your relationship with Jesus Christ. – Kay Robertson
I never want to lose sight of my roots… A lot of artists want the riches and the fame. I want to tell stories you can put into the context of your life. – Lukas Forchhammer
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
I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level and have run campaigns or have been deeply involved in grass roots political campaigns and who have actual hands-on experience. – Roy Romer
When President Obama took office, I was transitioning out of the military and just seeing that he was taking the country in a direction that I didn’t think was consistent with the Founding Fathers and with our constitutional roots. – Ron DeSantis
I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art. – Rick Riordan
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
When these suckers had formed roots in the open ground, or kind of nursery where they were planted, they were looked over and the best taken up for potting. – Robert Fortune
My music had roots which I’d dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. – Ray Charles
Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I’ve always wanted to avoid is categorisation. – Oscar Isaac
We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution. – Roger Mahony
If a portion of a redwood is rotting, the redwood will send roots into its own form and draw nutrients out of itself as it falls apart. If we had redwood-like biology, if we got a touch of gangrene in our arm, then we could just, you know, extract the nutrients and the moisture out of it until it fell off. – Richard Preston
Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it’s a distraction if you let it. So it’s very important to stay focused, stay very connected to your roots. – OMI
This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle. – Robert Fortune
If not for the Tea Party, the Republican Party would not be coming back to its roots. – Richard Mourdock
Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots. – Robert Carlyle
My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here. – Oprah Winfrey
I was impressed by a program called New Roots, which helps women refugees from countries in conflict to start new lives in the U.S. by farming. They are trained in a four-year program, at the end of which New Roots helps them find their own land to farm and live on. – Rebecca Pidgeon
For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe’s Christian roots was the driving force. – Rocco Buttiglione
Understanding and respecting your roots is critical not only to winning the tech talent wars but leaving a legacy that transcends bottom lines. – Ryan Holmes
In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again. – Rick Derringer