Quotes About Roots

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

I like young people. I think it is time my country does what the Indians of Kingcome are doing. We must return to our own roots, our own safety and integrity, and I think this is the beginning to occur. Our lives depend upon it.

Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground

No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

Was it her imagination, or did everyone in town have roots that went back to the beginning of time, complete with ancestral home and pedigree? Was one of those pedigrees hers? Were some of her roots here in this bayside town? Jamie

We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.

I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.

Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors in the kitchen than we ever will from a book.

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

We, the great mass of the people think only of the love we have for our land, we do love the land where we were brought up. We will never let our hold to this land go, to let it go it will be like throwing away our mother that gave us birth.

A brave man who climbs trees is food for their roots

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

You can't love a city if you have no memories burried there.

Cada uno ES de un solo sitio en la tierra y allí debe pagar su cuota. Yo soy de aquí.

Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, two contemporary theorists of U.S. empire, have also suggested that the root of contemporary U.S. imperial abuses "should be traced back to the very origins of the country, to black slavery and the genocidal wars against the Native Americans.

There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

I was born in Alabama. I was raised in Georgia. I'm so Southern I'm related to myself. I have a 12-year-old daughter. She takes after my daddy. She ought to. She's his.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.

Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.

What miracle is this? This giant tree. It stands ten thousand feet high But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands. Its roots must hold the sky.