America Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

We are where we come from but also where we are going.

— Vick Hope

We all come from someplace. We didn't just get here by accident. Where we come from has got to be known, if you want…

— Edward James Olmos

We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer…

— Woodrow Wilson

We don't really remember where we came from, and we're not too sure about where we go to, if we are, after this thing…

— Frederick Lenz

I never forget where I come from. It means everything.

— Deshaun Watson

Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed…

— Barack Obama

Where do we come from? What are We? Where are we going?

— Paul Gauguin

People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go.

— Anoushka Shankar

It's a chance for people to understand where we came from.

— Amadou Bagayoko

To say what or where we came from has nothing to do with what or where we came from. We do not come from…

— W. S. Merwin

If we don't know where we are going, it can be helpful to know where we come from.

— Jostein Gaarder

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…

— Terry Pratchett