Quotes About Roots

Love is, without a doubt, the basis of everything.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good.

From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.

El ser humano que olvida sus tradiciones está condenado a perderse a sí mismo, sin raíces, sin un código, sin nada a que aferrarse.

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.

You must know where you are from in order to get where you are going.

No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.

As long as we can remember them, our families will always be with us.

In fact, I believe that Americans in general are losing touch with the past, with our history and cultural inheritance. We live in an age of instant gratification. We no longer know our forebears. This is one reason we feel so fractured today. Dvo?ák was bent on excavating roots. This exercise has never seemed more timely.

Ha venido la primavera con su olor a Nicaragua: un olor a tierra recién llovida, y un olor a calor, a flores, a raíces desenterradas, y a hojas mojadas (y he oído el mugido de un ganado lejano…) ¿O es el olor del amor?

In thinking of home, we have to move beyond considering home as a physical address. We have to start asking what home feels like. My

Psalm 131 is a maintenance psalm. It is functional to the person of faith as pruning is functional to the gardener: it gets rid of that which looks good to those who don't know any better, and reduces the distance between our hearts and their roots in God.

was about staying rooted while also growing. It was about having one foot planted on firm, familiar ground, while another toed new and unfamiliar ground.

And thus, by the express appointment of the same God, two roots of blessing, the Roman Empire, and the doctrine of Christian piety, sprang up together for the benefit of men.

Home' was a special album for very specific reasons. It is an homage to my father. And it is the first classical album I've released in over a decade. So it really felt like a kind-of coming back to my roots.

The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music grows, but the foundation is always there. It's not going anywhere. The blues is always going to be relevant.

At the end of the day, I remain a country boy inside.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

My dad, he was my role model - my mom died when I was three - and the way we honor our parents is remembering their heritage.

If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.

I remind myself to be grateful and remember where I came from.

That love and loyalty, that groundedness, is always there. I got the type of family that no matter how far I go in Hollywood, they will quickly remind me who the hell I am and where the hell I came from.

Fashion is something that brought me closer to my family as I grew up. It's something that was deep inside me, in my roots, and I started taking more interest as I grew older because it reminded me of my mother and my grandmother. It's not something I take lightly, and I'm going to be open about it.