Quotes About Roots

I missed home like the ache of hunger, something in me left empty. I'd missed it every day since we crossed out of the valley, going over the mountains. Roots—yes. There were roots in my heart, as deep as any corruption could go.

I had roots, too, but not like that. I could be carefully dug up, and shaken loose, and transplanted into a king's castle, or a tower built of marble—unhappily, perhaps, but I could survive.

All our roots go deep down, even if they're tangled

Llevamos el circo en la sangre.

Le guerre negano la memoria dissuadendoci dall'indagare sulle loro radici, finché non si è spenta la voce di chi può raccontarle. Allora ritornano, con un altro nome e un altro volto, a distruggere quel poco che avevano risparmiato.

In time, my mother decided she wanted to return to Spain.

Oh, hush! You've already said you aren't the settling type. You can't have wings and roots both, cowboy.

were trying to dig up the roots of that big oak stump near the

There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.

Možeš posje?i drvo, ali ne možeš uništiti ono iz ?ega je izraslo i sav život koji je iz njega potekao.

Lots of kids in our neck of the woods call their grandfathers Papaw

I come from the bottom of the ladder. I'm from Norwich. Not many people seem to know about it.

I feel like Salt Lake is a home for me now and it's become a home for my family.

They say that Salt Lake is a great place to raise a family - and I know that sounds like something people just say. But you spend enough time here... and you realize that it's true.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

My father was a farmer, and we have had some farming land in Haryana. Maybe I would have followed his footsteps and become a farmer.

I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.

I'm the only member of my family who dared to move away from Birmingham - my brothers and sister are still here, along with my mom.

I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy.

I grew up in Japan. It's my first memories of life are Japan.

Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.