Quotes About Roots

Marse Willa Viley

I think the seeds of my love were planted there, in the ground that my father's madness harrowed.

But the stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip. They pull life from whatever surfaces they cling to, while the roots, maybe, wither and rot until you cannot find the place from which the seed of the vine has truly sprung. That was my task: to uncover those earliest roots. And he had directed me to the seedbed.

America is my country, and Paris is my home town.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes -- our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.

Ryman himself said—all mistakes proceed from initial conditions.

Quisiera ser extranjero para irme a mi país".

Always remember where we come from, how we got here, and Who led us into the warmth of the sunshine.

Roots can exist without flowers, but no flower can exist without roots. Religion may be a flower, but people are its roots.

Roots can exist without flowers, but no flower can exist without roots.

Roots cannot exist without flowers, but no flower can exist without roots.

So if you are looking for the roots of the war, they lie in discontent—and discontent always rises up like froth on beer. Look

Any spot for which a man's forebears have bled and died will forever be his homeland.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become

With this fearful intimation there opened in me a hatred for Giovanni which was as powerful as my love and which was nourished by the same roots.

If you know from whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations on where you can go.

He made me think of home—perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.

Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him--he may be forced to--but nothing will efface his origins, the marks of which he carries with him everywhere. I think it is important to know this and even find it a matter for rejoicing, as the strongest people do, regardless of their station. On this acceptance, literally, the life of a writer depends.

Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.

Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him - he may be forced to - but nothing will efface his origins, the mark of which he carries with him everywhere. I think it is important to know this and even find it a matter for rejoicing, as the strongest people do, regardless of their station.

In our view, corporations resemble nations in that they reflect the accumulation of past events and the shaping force of underlying genetics that have roots in prior generations.