Quotes About Roots

It seemed to Rowan that the Texas region had embraced its roots, and had chosen to mimic the Old West the way Tonists mimicked mortal-age religions.

i am with the roots of flowers entwined, entombed sending up my passionate blossoms as a flight of rockets and argument; wine churls my throat, above me feet walk upon my brain, monkies fall from the sky clutching photographs of the planets, but i seek only music and the leisure of my pain

where the Coffins had lived ever since Noah's flood (if, indeed, they had not merely returned thither after that temporary displacement)

All polynomials of degree n-those that have a leading term of x^n- split into n distinct terms. This is the fundamental theorem of algebra.

Every adult is the creation of a child.

I missed my roots, so I ended up buying a home in Kansas City.

I try to go home to Missouri every couple of months. I do that because I like my family, of course, but my mom doesn't know who Carine Roitfeld is. And as much as that horrifies me, it's a good way to keep your feet on the ground.

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.

Charley Patton is the original inspiration. I didn't play anything when I was a kid. Then, when I was 20, I went into my mam's bedroom because she had a double mirror, and I wanted to see what the back of my hair was doing. She had an alarm-clock radio, and it came on with this old guy moaning and hollering, playing this strange guitar.

I'm a Mobile, Alabama kid.

I'm a mom. I'm a lawyer. I'm a lifelong Michigander.

I went to Brooklyn College as an education major. It was a big deal in the family, but really, I was living for Mom and Dad.

When my mom and dad got married, they lived in south Boston, which is where the first six of my brothers were born. After that, they moved to Minnesota, which is where the other five of us were born. So there's 11 of us.

I just like to have one foot in Montana and one foot out.

Though I had been born in Maryland, Montana was where I truly belonged.

I grew up in Montana and played football my whole life.

I have been living in Montgomery so long that I call it home.

I've always tried to keep my family and how I was raised and my morals in the back of my head.

More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.

I'm a Londoner more than anything else.

I'm very attached to my roots, but I feel Italian more than anything else.

More than anything, I'm proud to say I'm from Saginaw.

I was born in Morocco and lived there until I was 13; I'm really proud of my heritage.

My family is from Morocco, and I was born and raised in Canada, but I'm an Indian at heart, for sure.