Quotes About Roots

Bitterness is like a weed. Remember how hard it always was to pull out thistles once they root? Remember how deep those roots grow, and how if you just snapped off the end of it, the plant would grow right back? You have to dig down deep inside. Let God search your heart. Let Him show you what's there and help you root out all that bitterness. Then you can pray for forgiveness.

Nations that can manage to develop their language and make it accommondating while at the same time staying faithful to the roots of it are the most communicative societies that are also most dynamic in thought.

When I first started studying Greek, one of my absolute favorite parts was realizing that so many English words had these old, secret roots. Learning Greek was like being given a super-power: linguistic x-ray vision.

Of course my flesh reaches for the earth. That is where it belongs.

From this skull-rock strange golden roots throw Ikons and incidents; the man in the mask Manipulates. I am the fool that falls And never learns to wait and watch, Icarus eternally damned, the dupe of time . . .

There was something about the Midwest in her that Wallingford loved.

Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.

For some reason, humans have this funny thing about where we came from - it always has far more emotional weight than where we are.

You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.

Yes, for me audio-visual performance has its roots in my experience working as an improvising musician and composer.

It's such a phenomenon for a hip-hop artist to fully embrace his Christian roots and his faith. And that becomes something that people almost need you to justify.

Every faith has its story; every faith has its roots.

The faith I was born into formed me.

Focus on faith and grow your roots strong and deep so no one can make you believe in something that is not good for your soul.

The country in which I live is not my native country that lies elsewhere and it must always be the center of my longings.

No matter how high up you get, never forget where you came from.

No matter where life takes you, don't forget where you came from.

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from, will never get to his destination.

Sorunun bir me?e fidesi gibi oldu?unu dü?ündüm. Topra??n üstünde basit, ye?il bir filiz ama alt?nda dall? budakl? kökler çukur aç?yor, derinlere yay?l?yor.

Prometheus' words, deep-running as roots, had waited in me all this time. "We bear it as best we can," I said.

I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in.

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

he says I am from there, I am from here, but I am neither there nor here. I have two names which meet and part… I have two languages, but I have long forgotten— which is the language of my dreams