Quotes About Roots

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

I'm a Russian. Without the Motherland, I'd be nothing.

My history defines who I am.

As far back as I can remember, there has always been a place to which I belonged with a certainty that nothing has been able to take from me. When I say place, that means less a geographical locality and more a group of people with whom I am connected and to whom I belong.

Above our heads, is where our roots are found.

Old families last not three oaks.

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato?the only good belonging to him is underground.

We drank coffee. We talked. She loved Charles Dickens, whom she read in Norwegian. Years after she was dead, I wrote a dissertation on Dickens, and though my study of the great man would no doubt have alarmed her, I had a funny feeling that by taking on the English novelist I was returning to my Norwegian roots.

The truth is that the idea of home and the idea of our mother and father were inseparable.

The roots of the deepest love die in the heart, if not tenderly cherished.

I love Pittsburgh. Most of my family still lives there and I try to get back a couple of times a year.

I love living in Utah. I was born here but raised in L.A., but we decided about 13, 14 years ago to come here to Utah.

I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.

I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.

Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I love having the memories of living in many places.

I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.

My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.

I love folk; that's a big part of my background.

I live in Connecticut, but eventually I'd like to move back to New Orleans. I grew up there; the pace is a bit slower. Plus, I love crawfish and po'boys.

I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad was a country singer-songwriter, so it's in my blood, and I love it.

I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.

Let Pirelli's / Miracle Elixir / Activate your roots, sir... Keep it off your boots, sir- / Eats right through. Yes, get Pirelli's! / Use a bottle of it! / Ladies seem to love it... Flies do, too!

I love Ireland. I'll always be 100pc Irish. I get really excited when I go to Sligo; it's my home.

People can't see your root system, but God can. Praying and meditating on the Word of God will cause your roots to go down deep into His love.