Quotes About Roots

If I'm in LA, I'm close to home, and that just brings up all these other things, good and bad. There is a reason why I am not there .

My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best.

For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul.

Movement is a fantastic privilege but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to.

I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.

For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago.

Home is where we tie one end of the thread of life.

Going home helps the content.

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow.

Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?

Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

The outlaw is the radical, the one close to the roots of existence. The one who refuses to forget their humanity and, in remembering, helps everyone else remember, too.

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree......unless that tree's growing on top of a hill.

We put our flags in soil when we arrive, as if it now belongs to us and we know where we are.

Hunting is a family thing for me, and it's a Texas thing. We have a lot of land in Texas that's been in our family for 12 generations.

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Whenever the cloud of ego threatens to engulf me, I remind myself of my roots. It helps keeping my feet on the ground.

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.