Quotes About Roots

moonlit winter trees bare branches paint gray shadows ghostly risen roots

On the green they watched their sons Playing till too dark to see, As their fathers watched them once, As my father once watched me...

Homecoming means coming home to what is in your heart.

In my world, the closer I can get to the dirt and mud, the more alive I become.

A lot of groups spend their whole cultural and aesthetic identity trying to move away from Africa, which I think is a mistake. One of the reasons I love Cuba and cultures like that is because they're not trying to move away from their African roots, they're trying to embrace them. That's part of the culture.

Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.

Each of our lives was knit into these hedges and rooted in these fields and yet, notwithstanding all this, in response to some powerful yearning, my father was about to set out for the fifth time into the still more remote and untrodden west.

They will raise, and raise with them their mother's side.

To know yourself is to know where you're from

children are the carriers of whatever has been left unresolved from the generations that went before.

Perhaps, he thought, true pure love, like all flowers, flourished best with its roots in muck and mud. Perhaps that was a law of life that held everything together.

I'm just a politician from Missouri and proud of it.

You can go home again ... so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

Seek to understand the root. It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.

I'm not like Thomas Wolfe. I can go home again.

Jivan: You think when you have love that love is easy to find, that everyone has it. It's not true. It's very hard to find. Nedra: I haven't been looking for it. Jivan: It's like a tree...It takes a long time to grow. It has roots very deep, and these roots stretch out a long way, farther than you know. You can't cut it, just like that.

In Stockton, Illinois

It is now clear not only that all the trees in the forest are interconnected below the ground but also that each of the largest and oldest trees serves as a "mother tree," with younger trees growing within her root-fungi network.

One of the most important things about roots is that they hold the soil in place.

It doesn't matter how many years go by, how grown-up we think we are, how much we presume we have changed or evolved, when we are back in our childhood homes, we become exactly who we have always been

When you are overly concerned with physical matters, and even vital physical matters, you pull yourself in. And more ridiculous, you pull up your roots. A tree would never pull up its roots. I am not speaking now of pulling up your roots in terms of moving from one location to another. I am speaking of something akin to cutting off your roots from any nourishment

The Lakers had been home to me, unlike the home I had grown up and felt apart from.