Quotes About Roots

Sam Phillips's boys—Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash—were raised on gospel and country music.

Sometimes my thoughts grow confused, and it is as if the forest has put down roots in me, and is thinking its old, eternal thoughts with my brain.

Go to Hanover and take a name like Everton or Courtney or Fitzharold, a name that sound like both mother and father raise me.

Everyone clings to their history with a vengeance because it anchors their identity.

No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us.

In love of home, the love of country has its rise.

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

My name is Fitzgerald O'Neill Dawson. My mother was born in Ireland and she landed all her love for the Old Country right smack on my head with a single name.

And as high as the trees stretched, the roots reached to the foundations of the earth.

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

We ended up in America by default, so it'll never really be our home.

I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from.

The Teacher provides Spiritual Energy! Just like roots provide nutrients to the flowers!

Your ancestors are a ladder; upon them climb.

In becoming everyone, you are becoming no one. You are forgetting your root life.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

Who you come from is part of who you are. How do you just let that be stolen from you?

By "radical" I mean something more than that they aimed to change the order of society in a fundamental way or that they searched for the deepest roots of problems. The opposite of radical is not "moderate" or "conservative" but "common.

My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

Pa u tome i jeste sve - vra?ati se. S jedne ta?ke na zemlji ?eznuti, polaziti i ponovo stizati. Bez te ta?ke za koju si vezan, ne bi volio ni nju ni drugi svijet, ne bi imao odakle da po?eš, jer ne bi bio nigdje. A nisi nigdje ni ako imaš samo nju. Jer tada ne misliš o njoj, ne ?ezneš, ne voliš. A to nije dobro. Treba da misliš, da ?ezneš, da voliš.

Nothing ever begins when you think it does. You think you can trace something back to its roots but roots by definition never end. There's always something that came before: soil and water and seeds that were born of trees that were born of yet more seeds.

A moss which leaves its ocean becomes pale and dries up and a man which leaves his mother country is a moss which leaves it ocean!