Born Quote by Sebastian Barry

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

— V. S. Naipaul

I wanted to know who my people were. And I - I think like a lot of Americans - thought that I could find…

— Alex Wagner

I love many places to which I have no connection, but identifying an ancestor, or someone I think is an ancestor, has taken me…

— Jeremy Hardy

I was born in the Land of Israel, the son of pioneers - people who tilled the land and sought no fights - who…

— Ariel Sharon

If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do…

— Bob Marley

Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have…

— Wallace Stegner

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

— V. S. Naipaul

People like to trace their ancestry.

— Richard Dawkins

“Travel Tip: The term is in situ -- in the place of origin. We travel to put ourselves in situ , in a place…

— Vivian Swift

You want to try to find your heritage.

— Reese Hoffa

I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home.

— Bob Dylan

Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books.

— Marguerite Yourcenar