Quotes About Roots

Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.

Growing up, I was brought up around Irish music, Irish traditions.

Traditions are our roots and a profile of who we are as individuals and who we are as a family. They are our roots, which give us stability and a sense of belonging - they ground us.

If you grow up with traditions in your family, it's always nice to be able to get home and have those moments.

You like to think that you're bigger than your traditions and customs, but they form who you are.

I think everyone is kind of an immigrant somehow, and I wasn't raised in an American society at home. My household was a Jamaican household, so I got all my traditions, all my roots and culture intact, so I'm able to support both countries.

A child is born into a family that he/she does not choose, but is destined to be born in. And that child follows that particular family/society's traditions. Most of which is important and perhaps, are ought to be followed.

After my bar mitzvah, I started to assimilate, to really not pay attention to my roots. The anti-Semitic experiences of my youth had been very painful. You try to put all that in the past and become a person of the world. I think that's the right thing to do. But it's not right to leave out who you really are. That's a tragedy.

I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

I was brought home to a trailer in Highland, MI.

The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years.

I always think to myself that if I was able to transition from lucha libre style to American style, then I can always go back. You never lose your roots.

Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It's the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning.

They understood that the Second Amendment is not so much about guns as it is about accountability, and politeness, and the basic freedom of self defense. People who live around dirt are very simple folk and they look at the world through simple eyes, untainted by political correctness or liberal ideology. And because they live around dirt, they remain close to their roots, and the simple things that city people don't understand are just plain common sense to them.

Earth: Work in the garden. Sit on the ground while holding brown or black gemstones in your hand. Take long walks in the woods. Keep potted plants in your home and workplace. Eat lots of root vegetables: potatoes, carrots, turnips, beets.

Many people are willing to learn techniques that help them live their lives. But the person who seeks to confirm their life at its roots by reaching beyond technique to the fundamentals—to true religion—is exceedingly rare. I find this state of affairs most regrettable. That is why I can't help but urge you to refrain from evaluating your daily life on the basis of what you think you know, on the basis of collected data.

it is better to study a tradition as near to its roots as possible in order to gain a competent and confident understanding of its practices.

A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground.

Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.

The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves the tongue or slows it, colors the thinking, impedes upon the logic.

I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.

Regret, hurt, bereavement, loss, to permit the flow of even one tear at the upwelling of such feelings was to imperil ancient root systems and retaining walls. Mudslide and black avalanche would result and drown him.

If you don't know history, you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree.