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Quotes About Roots

The God whom I know dwells quietly in the root system of the very nature of things.
~ Parker J. Palmer
My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
~ Parker Posey
Understanding anyone begins with the person's family history and the culture he or she is a part of.
~ Pat Brown
pedigree was for animals
~ Pat Cadigan
My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
~ Pat Conroy
Honey," he drawled, pulling on his Southern roots. "When a wolf watches a lamb, he's not thinking about the lamb's mommy." I grinned. I couldn't help it. The idea of Bran as a lamb's mommy was too funny. "I'm not much of a lamb," I said. He just smiled.
~ Patricia Briggs
Perhaps 'home' can be where one comes from, as well as where one lives.
~ Unknown
This is important to writing. . . that is, it is important to my own writing. This. . . is landscape! Mine. This dirt came from the prairie where I was a child. I played in it, dug in it, planted in it, and walked over it. It is where I began. And all my writing begins with a landscape such as this. A place.
~ Patricia MacLachlan
But those are just stories," I protested. He gave me an amused look. "Where do you think stories come from, E'lir Kvothe? Every tale has deep roots somewhere in the world.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Every tale has deep roots somewhere in the world.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
It's not running away when you're going back home.
~ Unknown
In particular, the three roots to a cubic polynomial either must all be real, or there must be one real root and one conjugate pair.
~ Unknown
for the irreducible case with all three roots real, there is just one positive root; that is, the root given by the Cardan formula
~ Unknown
The breakthrough for came not from quadratic equations, but rather from cubics which clearly had real solutions but for which the Cardan formula produced formal answers with imaginary components.
~ Unknown
Las discusiones a nivel superficial alimentadas con ira pueden durar por días y son completamente inefectivas, pero cuando resuelven la verdadera raíz del problema, todos esos asuntos superficiales empiezan a desaparecer. Usted
~ Unknown
I am here because of those who came before. And I will go on because of those who come after.
~ Paul Stanley
Ces jours qui te semblent vides Et perdus pour l'univers Ont des racines avides Qui travaillent les déserts
~ Paul Valery
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
~ Pauline R. Kezer
Never forget where you came from, Gina Attaviano, Alessandro said to her before he died. Then it will always be easy.
~ Paullina Simons
We're not nomads, we're not gypsies! We have a home!
~ Paullina Simons
My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.
~ Pauly Shore
Vodka at night. Pickle juice in the morning (the best thing for a hangover). Throwing some kettlebells around between this hangover and the next one. A Russian's day well spent. The 'kettlebell' or girya is a cast iron weight which looks like a basketball with a suitcase handle. It is an old Russian toy. As the 1986 Soviet Weightlifting Yearbook put it, "It is hard to find a sport that has deeper roots in the
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
Is it possible to have some kind of genetic memory of a place where you've never lived, but your ancestors have? Or am I just a sentimental fool, my judgement fuddled by nostalgia, Guinness, and the romance of the diaspora?
~ Pete McCarthy
Maybe Americans have found it easier to latch on to new traditions because we are uprooted people, and have few deep roots.
~ Pete Seeger