Quotes About Roots

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

It wasn't that easy to leave your established home, the place made sacred by the graves of your parents, and move on to who knew where.

Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things. Their language has been lost. But not the gestures.

Como aquel que no puede decir lo que quiere enterrado al fondo de su raza.

he will go home to his village and dig out a farm girl, like a cocoyam

There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating.

Sometimes the best way to learn is to return to the fundamentals.

The best way to be global is to be local.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.

The Vedas, four books of learning composed in North India, in the period 1000–500 BC, are named from the Sanskrit root vid, meaning "knowledge". This same root occurs in Old Irish as uid, meaning "observation, perception and knowledge". Most people will immediately recognise it as one of the two roots of the compound Celtic word Druid – dru-vid, arguably meaning "thorough knowledge".

not yet been realized or because it is in danger of disappearing from human sight: the stability of a tradition, which has its roots not only in a historical or cultural past, but within the innermost being of man. . . ."2

Let us all unite, and...declare that we will not leave our own country...this is our...country; ...our forefathers have planted trees in America for us and we intend to stay and eat the fruit.

I liked the place I came from, but a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there.

Too many times we pray for ease, but that's a prayer seldom met. What we need to do is pray for roots that reach deep into the Eternal, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won't be swept asunder.

Christianity has its roots in the profound sense of exile.

Even a monster has to be from somewhere—even a monster needs parents. But parents don't need monsters.

my religion is home and all that attends it.

You leave the place you're from, you have to. But you also need to have it stay in you for a long time. It is your center.

I've wandered for many years... So much that I'm unsure where home even lies.

Security is having a home town. - Charles Schulz

Aquí lo que nos importa es preservar las raíces, que los que vengan encuentren el origen, la antigüedad.

All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.

He traced the genealogy of the feeling.