Quotes About Roots

People like to trace their ancestry.

Most people go to ashrams or retreats to destress and rejuvenate themselves. But I come back to my roots, the place where I spent half my life. And when I return, I spend time in the farms, eating a stalk of sugarcane, driving a tractor, and chilling with childhood friends.

I always shout out my dad. My artistic roots come from him. He had his own T-shirt company and taught me the trade.

Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.

I have no desire to live anywhere else but New Zealand. I've had the good fortune to travel widely around the world, but New Zealand is home - and I like to be here. I'm proud to be a New Zealander.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.

A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.

A Painting without emotion is like a tree without roots.

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

Everybody who's anybody longs to be a tree.

We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots?

Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they already have done a good pruning job.

My hands resemble some ancient tree: the roots that bind up the earth, the rock and the ceaselessly nibbling wordms.

Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again.

Everyone has a family tree; the Dawsons have one, it's a weeping willow.

Many a family tree needs trimming

Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.

It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.

I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.