Quotes About Roots

There's something about home that you just can't find anywhere else in the world.

Too many artists appear to forget where they came from.

I grew up speaking Arabic at home.

I'm from Tucson, Arizona.

I'm an Arizona boy.

My mom's side of the family is from Arkansas!

Most of my family is from Arkansas on my Mom's side, and my Dad's family is from up north in Chicago.

My father's family didn't really know much about our ancestry. I mean, they had the story that I think a lot of white Americans have, which is, well, we came from Europe. And we arrived here.

It's best to know a little about where you're coming from and why you've arrived where you are.

I grew up in Asia. I was born in Asia.

We are the earth, the land. The tongue that speaks and trips on the names of the dead as it dares to tell these stories of a woman's line. Her people and her dirt, her trees,

My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

The faith I was born into formed me.

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it's not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don't want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots.

Exile. It is not simply being homeless. Rather, it is knowing that you do have a home, but that your home has been taken over by enemies. Exile. It is not being without roots. On the contrary, it is having deep roots which have now been plucked up, and there you are, with roots dangling, writhing in pain, exposed to a cold and jeering world, longing to be restored to native and nurturing soil. Exile is knowing precisely where you belong, but knowing that you can't go back, not yet.

That's certainly the roots of heavy metal. That whole sense of revolution and wanting to be powerful is definetly a puberty thing. Fans don't have to be offended by that. Everybody goes through it. That's why heavy metal is so powerful.

Grandfather was a tree

So many names in this … "place.

Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots.

Muchas enseñanzas religiosas en el mundo son en realidad una forma confusa o deteriorada, muy diferente a sus raíces.

Being Irish is very much apart of who I am I take it everywhere with me

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

Despite the bright lights and brilliant diversities of the world always remember to return home every once in a while.

It's one thing to remember your roots, Sam. Helps us keep our balance. But don't let your roots become your excuse to be stuck.