Quotes About Roots

Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.

WE all need a story of where we came from and how we got here.

Every sturdy tree that towers over human beings owes its existence to a deeply rooted core.

My ancestors came over on the boat. Oh, not the Mayflower, but the boat after that. What did your ancestors come over on, Godfrey?

Can we combine ?2 + ?3 into the simpler ?5? Let us test this operation on whole numbers expressed as roots. Certainly ?9 + ?16 does not equal , that is, 3 + 4 does not equal 5. Hence we should not assert the analogous relation for irrational numbers.

Thoughts sprout branches and roots and bear fruit of ideas, leaves as feelings and emotions. Harmony with nature from which our mind blooms like a flower.

My culture acts as my compass in life.

History is the third parent.

Love is no rose. It's a goddam weed that digs its roots in deep, there's no hope of getting it out. - Nina Valance, human novelist married to a telekinetic (circa 1977)

Love is no rose. It's a goddamn weed that digs its roots in so deep, there's no hope of getting it out.

Takes more than beer in your blood to take the English out of you.

Your childhood stays with you all your life, no matter where you go.

Thanks to World War II, I am a native Californian, an incongruity that perhaps troubles only a thirteenth generation New Englander. Growing up among relatives whose roots proudly clutch thin and rocky soil, I'm embarrassed to have been born in California, as though I hadn't got properly born at all.

Most people do not know that the hospice movement has Christian roots. It was the brainchild of an English medical humanitarian, Dame Cecily Saunders, in the 1960s, and it arose directly from her deep Anglican faith.

you belong in three places: the place you grew up, the place where you went to college, and the place where the person you love is.

The shape of power is always the same; it is the shape of a tree.

The way to shut us up - to denigrate and destroy the truth we hear and see -is to render us unworthy and unsuccessful and without homes or roots.

It is very important to go home if you want your work to be whole. You don't have to move in with your parents again and collect a weekly allowance, but you must claim where you come from and look deep into it. Come to honor and embrace it, or at the least, accept it.

It is very important to go home if you want your work to be whole. You don't have to move in with your parents and collect an allowance, but you must claim where you come from and look deep into it. Come to honor and embrace it, or at least, accept it.

Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.

For millions of years, humans and other primates have plucked fruits from trees and roots from the ground and have taken advantage of carbohydrate's capacity to nourish us. What is remarkable is that these foods provide energy with relatively little tendency to cause overweight. In many Asian countries, for example, where rice is still the center of the diet and huge amounts of rice are consumed, people tend to remain slim.

U.S. policy is too often shaped by the desire to tamp down that violence as fast as possible, rather than fostering the kind of deep-seated, long-term changes that would kill its roots.

immigration program, focused on the way that hashtags like #shutthedoor and #immigrationreform had their roots in historical attitudes of isolationism.

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