Quotes About Roots

If I penetrate to the depths of my existence, the indefinable, am, that is myself in its deepest roots, then through this deep center I pass into the infinite I am, which is the very nature of the Almighty.

Hay un proverbio senegalés que dice: «Cuando no sepas adónde vas, párate y mira de dónde vienes».

The roots of the present crisis in the American political party system lie at the juncture of money and religion

Kathleen G. Nadeau

Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it's not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I'm going to be married and buried there.

Go spend time with the aspen trees. They'll tell you how it works. They'll tell you to look to your roots for energy. They'll tell you there's warmth below the surface.

The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.

What I found about the blues and music, tracing things back, was that nothing came from itself.

I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever.

When filled with qi, the body is like a tree branch filled with sap; it can bend and flow with the breeze, but it does not snap or lose its connection with the root. On the other hand, a stiff, dead branch is easily broken. Thus the adage of Lao Zi, "Concentrate the qi and you will achieve the utmost suppleness... Suppleness is the essence of life.

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.

Unlike the names at the roots of hierarchies, subclass names aren't used nearly as often in conversation, so they can be expressive at the cost of being concise.

There's this trope that repeats itself in the books you and I read to save our lives: that if where you grew up is killing you, you can leave and make a chosen, identity-based fam that takes up where your bio-fam left off.

That we are bound to the earth does not mean that we cannot grow; on the contrary it is the sine qua non of growth. No noble, well-grown tree ever disowned its dark roots, for it grows not only upward but downward as well.

Thus the Mithraic killing of the bull is a sacrifice to the Terrible Mother, to the unconscious, which spontaneously attracts energy from the conscious mind because it has strayed too far from its roots

El público culto -flor y nata de nuestra civilización actual- hállase un tanto separado de sus raíces y en vías de perder su conexión con la tierra.

Returning to one's roots is healthy and admirable. However, if it's at the expense of following your own path in the world, or of losing sight of what matters most, then I think you'd be making a mistake." If

Poppies whose roots are in man's veins Drop, and are ever dropping; But mine in my ear is safe — Just a little white with the dust.

I suppose that every wanderer started in a garden somewhere. So few of us are born into motion.

R?bdarea este un pom cu r?d?cini amare, dar cu fructe dulci.

Heaven has become for us the cosmic space of the physicists... But 'the heart glows,' and a secret unrest gnaws at the roots of our being.

The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

For everyone in this occupation, the skyline of New York is a family tree.