Quotes About Roots

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

Poetry has roots, and sometimes they are aerial. Sometimes they are buried.

If I were in politics, and if you ever get me in the White House, trust me, there's a big change coming. What happened to America? We lost our roots.

I was born in the house my father built.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Being a successful and wealthy man doesn't mean that you have to forget about the place where you were brought up and the people who struggleds to make you a better person

I am not perfect, my roots are not watered with perfection.

Our power lies in our love of our homelands.

Power is knowing your past.

My forefathers didn't come over on the May-flower, but they met the boat.

Most people think adopted kids like me have this need to connect with our biological roots so we can discover who we really are. They think being "takeout" is totally different than being "homemade." But we're not different at all.

John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thoughtAll that we did, all that we said or sangMust come from contact with the soil, from thatContact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.

My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.

There is no place like your own meaning there's no place like home

Gettysburg.… You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

O loosen the roots of thy affections from the world, and the tree will fall more easily.

If it be but a tooth to pull out, the faster it stands the more pain we have to draw it. O loosen the roots of thy affections from the world, and the tree will fall more easily.

The word violence comes from roots that mean "the undue use of force." Thought that imposes or defends is violent.

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground.

I wouldn't mind bein' buried right here," Francis told Rudy. "You from around here?" "Used to be. Born here." "Your family here?" "Some." "Who's that?" "You keep askin' questions about me, I'm gonna give you a handful of answers.

History. And from history came community. And community was something that spread out beyond itself, resulting in towns and nations. But it all began with family.

Desde la niñez, nos han hecho considerar este lugar como la cuna de la raza humana.

Art is wood that has fewer branches than science but its roots are deeper than in science.