Quotes About Roots

Sometimes there's only a hint, a possibility. What's magical, sometimes, has deeper roots than reason. I hope everyone knows that.

What's magical, sometimes, has deeper roots than reason. I hope everyone knows that.

And in their presence I was what every child needs to be for however long it takes to put down the roots of a strong spirit: the object of love unlimited.

I am by birth a Genevese

How true! Life's problems are like trees. We see the trunk, we see the branches and the leaves. But we can't see the roots, hidden deep down under the ground. And yet it is their shape and nature and how far they dig into the slimy humus to search for water that we need to know. Then perhaps we would understand.

You don't cross a mangrove. You'd spike yourself on the roots of the mangrove trees. You'd be sucked down and suffocated by the brackish mud.

All Britons are descended from the same set of people a mere thirty generations ago.

When I walked down the streets, I asked myself, are these my people?, is this my hometown, am I who I am?

our true home, our true history, was in our poetry.

He is more rooted to the idea of home. He created this home...and established routines like watching the BBC and cooking barbecues for friends. It's much harder to dismantle that world and to rebuild it somewhere else.

Orang takkan pernah terlalu sibuk untuk memahami asalnya. --Nenek

What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us.

Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.

The tree was intact, not cut or broken by wind. What a waste. After maybe centuries of survival it had simply let go of the ground, the wide fist of its root mass ripped up and resting naked above a clay gash in the wooded mountainside. Like herself, it just seemed to have come loose from its station in life.

Golden children ran wild over a field of dead great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers, and the bones must have wanted to rise up and knock together and rattle with joy. I have never seen a town that gave so much—so much of what counts—to its children. More than anything else I wished I belonged to one of these living, celebrated families, lush as plants, with bones in the ground for roots. I wanted pollen on my cheeks and one of those calcium ancestors to decorate as my own.

The seeds sown in childhood put down deep roots.

She was just a year old, but she had wanted me to stay longer. That's how you know you're home, I think, no matter how far you've gone from it or how long you've been in some other place. Home is where they want you to stay longer.

The more people are into quick fixes and focus on the acute problems and pain, the more that very approach contributes to the underlying chronic condition.

You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root." –Henry David Thoreau

Preserve the Core AND Stimulate Progress

If we dig even deeper to the roots of words, we unearth physical metaphors for still more abstract concepts.

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.

The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family's attention and love.