Quotes About Roots

Being a France is great from a heritage standpoint.

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere

Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade majesty John Stuart Mill' and revered by others.

A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.

A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong. Nor can it pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

My mom still lives in Denver and some of my brothers are still in the area, so I still have strong ties there.

What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.

A mountain is not a mountain if there is nothing below.

House is a place where you live in, but home is a place where you belong

He who has more learning than goodness is like a tree with many branches and few roots, which the first wind throws down; whilst he whose works are greater than his knowledge is like a tree with many roots and fewer branches, which all the winds of heaven cannot uproot.

I stop listening when academics start mixing their Greek and Latin roots. That never leads anywhere productive.

an attachment to his culture is, for the European, the beginning of the slippery slope.

Each civilization, each nation, each family, each profession, each sex and each class has its own history. Humans have so far been interested mainly in their own private roots, and have therefore never claimed the whole of the inheritance into which they were born, the legacy of everybody's past experience. Each generation searches only for what it thinks it lacks, and recognizes only what it knows already.

early modern Christianity is often portrayed as an essentially European religion. This is regrettable because classic Christianity has its pre-European roots in cultures that are far distant from Europe and that preceded the development of early modern European identity, and some of its some of its greatest minds have been African.

All great peoples are conservative.

My grandmother's mother was from near Naples, so I love Italy, but I feel completely Argentinian.

I always loved being in London and being near my parents.

Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.