Quotes About Roots

The religious Right went wrong by forgetting its religious and moral roots and going for political power; the civil rights movement was proven right in operating out of its spiritual strength and letting its political influence flow from its moral influence.

When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.

Part of it is simply what looks right to the eye, sounds right to the ear. I am at home in the West. The hills of the coastal ranges look "right" to me, the particular flat expanse of the Central Valley comforts my eye. The place names have the ring of real places to me. I can pronounce the name of the rivers, and recognize the common trees and snakes. I am easy here in a way that I am not easy in other places.

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Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home

Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.

When aiming for success don't forget who you are and what you came from...

I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?

A person who does not remember where he came from will never reach his destination.

My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully.

IN WRITING THIS BOOK, I returned again and again to what people call my homeland, where my parents were born, as was I. But for the Vietnamese, the homeland is not simply the country of origin. It is the village where one's father was born and where one's father was buried. My father's father died where he was supposed to, as my father will not and as I will not, in the province of his birth, his mausoleum thirty minutes from Ho Chi Minh's birthplace.

Ah, the Amerasian, forever caught between worlds and never knowing where he belongs! Imagine if you did not suffer from the confusion you must constantly experience, feeling the constant tug-of-war inside you and over you, between Orient and Occident.

So why are we supposed to not forget our culture? Isn't my culture right here since I was born here?

Education begins within the threshold of one's own house.

Home is where you live your life and build your memories.

People are like trees, the leaves are many but the root is one and remember only a good foundation guarantees success and longevity.

Drawing is the root of everything!

The roots of modern religion are deeply embedded in the social oppression of the working masses.

The wind lifts the whole branch of the poplar carries it up and out and holds it there while each leaf is the whole tree reaching from its roots in the dark earth out through all its rings of memory to where it has never been

Politics is like a branches on a tree, they all grow in different directions but their roots remain as one.

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state.