Quotes About Roots

A tree's beauty lies in its branches, but its strength lies in its roots.

Without our ancestors we would not be.

The roots of the strongest tree grow deep.

A relationship is like a tree.The deeper the roots are, the more it will grow.The deeper the friendship is, the more it will grow.

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.

Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

There's always a spot, any time we make a new record, where I literally go back to Judas Priest and Motorhead because you have to. You have to go back and understand where this all started for you and keep reminding yourself of that.

I have never hid my spiritual roots. They just weren't something that came under the spotlight.

Constant rotation, based on a 19th century Army model, prevents spouses from putting down roots and gaining meaningful deployment.

For more than 300 years Qawwali music and Sufism have been deeply anchored in my family's roots and we spread it around to the public.

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

The educational highlights I remember were not in the classroom. My father spent a lot of time with me when he could. He taught me how to take square roots, a skill I have retained but do not use often, except to check that I still remember.

I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.

I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.

We joke that St. Louis people love their own.

My family in St. Louis brings me to my roots.

St. Louis is the best thing that ever happened to me. I needed that peace in my life. And I've always been a semi-country boy.

You can have some stable things in life, and so long as you're not away from those things for too long, they can help keep you grounded.

The first time I ever heard the blues, my parents had a stack of records that they weren't using anymore. I found them when I was ten; I didn't know what it was. But I found Lightnin' Hopkins.

Now that I get a chance on the big stage, it's even more important to remember where I came from.

Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, but the place where you stand.

I always want to have the traditional country soul while meeting the new standards of country music.