Quotes About Roots

But if your two-hundred-square-foot home was going to stay in one place

Home is you, Georgie," her father said. "You take it wherever you go.

The Sunrose Building is part of my blood and bone. It is a repository of treasures seen and unseen. I need to stay in order to keep my mind from wandering away. It is the only way to keep the world intact.

People think that great grandparents do not matter to kids. But they matter to me. They are my history. The more I know about them, the further my roots can stretch

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

I am out listening for the words, for the breath of my ancestors

El momento presente no tiene más fundamento que su parentesco con el pasado.

Qué?...: que la gota, siempre, tiene el tiempo consigo para hacer que crezcan raíces sobre el éter, y ramas, ramas, debajo del abismo...

Los pueblos sin tradición están abocados a la soledad más hosca

Bats have powerful associations with death and ghosts. A hoodoo charm to stop ghostly harassment displays African magical roots: Should you feel that ghost's unwanted presence, toss one single black cat hair, obtained without harming the cat, over your left shoulder saying, "Skit, scat! Become a bat!

Do you think we'll ever really belong anywhere?" "I suppose not," said Papa. "Not the way people belong who have lived in one place all their lives. But we'll belong a little in lots of places, and I think that may be just as good.

One who is happy being a cosmopolitan shelters a shattered origin in the night of his wandering.

Sin raíces no somos nada, es como si no tuviéramos los pies firmes sobre la tierra. Debe de ser terrible no saber quién es uno, y claro, eso sólo podemos saberlo si conocemos la historia de nuestros mayores.

I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.

I will always call Darmstadt, Indiana, home.

I'm from a small farm town in Indiana!

Obviously, my Indigenous culture is very special to me.

I'm connected with my indigenous roots.

I was born in Indonesia and will die in Indonesia.

I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

Of course, I have been influenced by my Punjabi and Hariyanvi roots.

I'm influenced a lot by my family. I have a big family.

I am from the country, and I grew up mostly influenced by country music.

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.