Quotes About Roots

I often noticed that the surrounding mountains inspired Hitler. He once joked that here he stood 'above the world' in an environment comparable to Olympius, legendary mount of the gods, but that alone can never have been the motivation for himto put down his private roots on Obersalzberg.

Their close grazing, in concert with that of sheep, reduced the short sward to a thin crust of roots over sand. Where the grazing was worst, sand blew into drifts and moved across the land.

Not all of us have that luxury, of a past. My history doesn't offer me much in that respect.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

An old farm is always more than the people under its roof. It is the past as well as the present, and vanished generations have built themselves into it as well as left their footsteps in the worn woodwork of the stair.

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.

One of my illustrious predecessors.

Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.

He portrays the labours of the etymologist in whimsical terms: 'In search of the progenitors of our speech, we may wander from the tropick to the frozen zone, and find some in the valleys of Palestine, and some upon the rocks of Norway'. Johnson's

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.

I united myself with my forefathers: the father, mother, and grandparents I loved. They and all my predecessors believed and lived, and they produced me.

It all begins and ends in the same place, doesn't it? Conor and me in Ballyutogue. We all come home eventually.

Svaki ?ovek govori jezikom svoga oca.

At the table, where food and stories are passed from one person to another and one generation to another, is where each of us learns who we are, where we come from, what we can be, to whom we belong, and to what we are called.

The King sat down and I noticed that a brood of small transparent roots grew from the soles of his feet. 'Yes, I am also errant. My roots can find no soil and this is why they are visible.

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. Anthony Brandt

intellectual trends that originate with a given person have a prehistory of their own

Folk music takes us back to the roots of our culture.

What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold.

When I was 6, I learned where I came from, which was one step removed from the usual circumstances. I was adopted.

I was born and raised in southern Utah.