Quotes About Roots

Some things must be dealt with at the roots. Trauma is one of these things.

The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.

Restlessness is the curse of our time. Put down roots, belong.

He really your dad? Yes. On my father's side.

inside so as not to offend the ancestors.

the Shemidaite clan from Shemida, and the Hepherite clan from Hepher.

Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron,

Eber, Peleg, Reu,

Serug, Nahor, Terah,

Nahshon was the father of Salmon, and Salmon was the father of Boaz.

Salma the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph the father of Beth-gader.

His roots wrap around the rock heap; he looks for a home among the stones.

If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.

Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.

Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders from his home.

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

“Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat their produce.

Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.í

He plucked off its topmost shoot, carried it to the land of merchants, and planted it in a city of traders.

He took some of the seed of the land and planted it in fertile soil; he placed it by abundant waters and set it out like a willow.

It sprouted and became a spreading vine, low in height, with branches turned toward him; yet its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine and yielded branches and sent out shoots.

But there was another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. And behold, this vine bent its roots toward him. It stretched out its branches to him from its planting bed, so that he might water it.