Quotes About Roots

Words are a homeland.

You ask: What is the meaning of "homeland"? They will say: The house, the mulberry tree, the chicken coop, the beehive, the smell of bread, and the first sky. You ask: Can a word of eight letters be big enough for all of these, yet too small for us?

March roses shall burn me in the land where I was first born. / Pomegranate blossoms will conceive of me, / and I will be born from it once more.

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

So one of the ways to maintain a certain sense of self is to remain somewhat linked to essential traditionalism.

When one was reinventing oneself, anywhere could be home. Pull up your shallow roots and move. Find a new place, new friends, a new family. It had been possible once, it would be possible again.

Era preciso morir para saber ciertas cosas? Ahora comprende también que en el corazón y en los sentidos de aquel hombre ella había hincado sus raíces; que jamás, aunque a menudo lo creyera, estuvo enteramente sola; que jamás, aunque a menudo lo pensara, fue realmente olvidada.

Chacun a son monde, le tout est de planter ses racines dans la terre qui nous convient.

What attaches us to other human beings is the thousand tiny roots, the innumerable threads formed by memories of the previous evening, hopes for the following morning; it is this continuous web of habit from which we cannot extricate ourselves

Here are the roots of all the life of the valleys, and here more simply than elsewhere is the eternal flux of nature manifested.

As clay anchors a tree in light and wind, May your outer life grow from peace within.

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.

The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.

Perhaps we have overrated roots as a psychic need. Maybe the greater the urge, the deeper and more ancient is the need, the will, the hunger to be somewhere else.

That's what makes it ours-being born on it, working on it, dying on it. That makes ownership, not a paper with numbers on it.

You want I should drive twenty miles because I got roots?

She watched his great red happiness, and it was not light as Samuel's happiness was light. It did not rise out of his roots and come floating up. He was manufacturing happiness as cleverly as he knew how, molding it and shaping it.

Grandpa didn't die tonight. He died the minute you took 'im off the place [...] He was that place, an' he knowed it.

No, in Ireland." "And in a few years you can almost disappear; while I, who was born in Grass Valley, went to school and several years to the University of California, have no chance of mixing.

Grampa an' the old place, they was jus' the same thing.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.

My family came from Ecuador.

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.