Quotes About Roots

Know why people run marathons? he told Dr. Bramble. Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles, Starry Night, intravascular surgery; they all had their roots in our ability to run. Running was the superpower that made us human—which means it's a superpower all humans possess.

He was born Michael Randall Hickman,

Sabe por qué la gente corre maratones?», le dijo al doctor Bramble. Porque correr se encuentra arraigado en nuestra imaginación colectiva, y nuestra imaginación se halla arraigada en correr. El lenguaje, el arte, la ciencia; los transbordadores espaciales, La noche estrellada de Van Gogh, la cirugía intravascular; todo tiene su origen en nuestra capacidad para correr.

Bestaat er een leven dat niet doordrongen is van levensnoodzakelijke vergissingen? Bestaat er een helder, transparant leven, zonder vernederende wortels, zonder verzonnen motieven, zonder mythen die uit begeerte zijn ontstaan?

We were lost in the deep forest of limbs and muscles on fire, of sweetness and complaint, of choking and anguish, where roots as old as man himself penetrate and are nourished with blood.

Hasn't everyone to be born somewhere,' Furlong said. 'Sure wasn't Jesus was born in Bethlehem.

Perhaps I now knew that I would never be equal to life myself, but that my life was equal to life. I would never reach my root, but my root did exist.

Being born is like this: The sunflowers slowly turn their corollas toward the sun. The wheat is ripe. The bread is eaten with sweetness. My impulse connects to that of the roots of the trees

As if ripping from the depths of the earth the knotted roots of a rare tree, that's how I write to you, and those roots as if they were powerful tentacles like voluminous naked bodies of strong women entwined by serpents and by carnal desires for fulfillment, and all this is the prayer of a black mass, and a creeping plea for amen: because the bad is unprotected and needs the approval of God: that is creation.

No fundo, Ana sempre tivera necessidade de sentir a raiz firme das coisas. E isso um lar perplexamente lhe dera. Por caminhos tortos, viera a cair num destino de mulher, com a surpresa de nele caber como se o tivesse inventado

De allí somos, de donde florece o da fruto cada palabra.

La forma en que nombramos plantas, flores, frutos, aun usando un mismo idioma, devela nuestro origen tanto o más que cualquier tonada. De allí somos, de donde florece o da fruto cada palabra.

The only thing the English have left is their past.

Yonder lies the castle of my father. —TONY CURTIS (ATTRIB.),

For me, London is and always will be home.

I gotta say, it feel good coming back home to the projects. Where I belong.

When you become a great man, you meet kinsfolk you never knew you had.

Family name and paternity are two different things, but but one must start somewhere.

O most honored Greening Force, You who roots in the Sun; You who lights up, in shining serenity, within a wheel that earthly excellence fails to comprehend. You are enfolded in the weaving of divine mysteries. You redden like the dawn and you burn: flame of the Sun.

Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into.

Hollow Hall is a stone manor with a tall, crooked tower, the whole thing half-covered in vines and ivy. There's a balcony on the second floor that seems to have a rail of thick roots in place of iron. A curtain of thinner tendrils hangs down from it, like a scraggly beard clotted with dirt. There is something misshapen about the estate that ought to make it charming but instead makes it ominous.

We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.

Show me your original face, the one you had before your parents were born.

You need to have a kind of home port where you put down anchor when the hurricane comes; you must stay connected to your roots. That helps you to have humility and an understanding of your true self.