Quotes About Roots

Although the degree to which Kiss Me, Kate employs the major-minor juxtapositions is perhaps unprecedented in a Porter show, the roots of this idea can be found in Porter's pre–Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Anything Goes (and many other songs;

Although I had turned away from the Jewish path i still carried the diaspora on me

All you will have is the present. Waste no energy crying over yesterday or dreaming of tomorrow. Nostalgia is fatiguing and destructive, it is the vice of the expatriate. You must put down roots as if they were forever, you must have a sense of permanence.

Mothers, on the other hand, are trees with firm roots.

Mi vida ha sido una serie de navegaciones, he ido de un lado a otro en esta tierra. He sido extranjero sin saber que tenia raices profundas...

Non me ne potevo andare perché lontana da questa terra sarei stata come gli alberi che tagliano a Natale, quei poveri pini senza radici che durano un po di tempo e poi muoiono.

There's a certain freshness and innocence in people who have always lived in one place and can count on witnesses to their passage through the world. In contrast, those of us who have moved on many times develop tough skin out of necessity. Since we lack roots or corroboration of who we are, we must put our trust in memory to give continuity to our lives...but memory is always cloudy, we can't trust it.

mis raíces ya se habrían secado si no estuviesen nutridas por el rico magma del pasado

In my case, it's not so much wanting to live in Chile as it is the desire to recapture the certainty I feel there. That's my home ground.

Our homeland is where our dead are buried.

mis raíces ya se habrían secado si no estuviesen nutridas por el rico magma del pasado, que en mi caso tiene un componente inevitable de imaginación. Tal vez no es sólo en mi caso, dicen que el proceso de recordar y de imaginar son casi idénticos en el cerebro.

I could never have invented such a clan. Actually, I had no need to, with a family like mine you don't need imagination.

Nunca hay que vender la tierra. Es lo único que queda cuando todo lo demás se acaba.

I think of my destiny as an expatriate. It is my fate to wander from place to place, and to adapt to new soils. I believe I will be able to do that because handfuls of Chilean soil are caught in my roots; I carry them with me always.

A caution to aspiring writers: not everything you write is worth keeping for the benefit of future generations.) When she gave me that notebook, my mother somehow intuited that I would have to dig up my Chilean roots, and that lacking a land into which to sink them I would have to do that on paper.

I was born in New Zealand, and I was raised in Australia, and I'm very proud of that.

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

My dad's from Zimbabwe, and my mom is Danish, Irish, and Norwegian, so I have influences from a lot of different places.

The habitant is the true Canadian, for he has no other country.

Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.

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.