Quotes About Roots

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.

The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.

History is as Old as My Grandfather

A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.

History is the third parent.

I am a fan of history.

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

I realized that part of that anger was because I didn't know who I was and where I came from. I didn't know my history.

Each of us is born with a history already in place

The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots.

Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.

Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.

I come from a family that has a long history in the legal community of New York and New York state.

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

I could never leave my home.... It inspires me a lot.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River