Quotes About Roots

I want to be reborn as a tree; that way I can plant my roots down, never move and can never be separated from the ones I love.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Trees have roots, Jews have legs.

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

God judges a tree by its fruits and not by its roots.

Roots are nice, but a tree can't run.

I come from a singing family and as is said, 'the apple does not fall far from the tree.'

He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.

A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing.

I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.

A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.

My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.

I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.

I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from this atrocity in our family tree.

What miracle is this? This giant tree. It stands ten thousand feet high But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands. Its roots must hold the sky.

Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.' (Talon)

Thoughts are roots

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

The truth of your instincts is the root of your foundation.

Life outside is changing our world. We are losing our culture, loosing our roots. How can a living thing grow if its roots are cut?