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Quotes About Roots

I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
~ Seamus Heaney
This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment.
~ Rick Bragg
But if she was going to live in a damn jungle, she preferred it be a damn jungle in Georgia, she always said, and never saw any reason to elaborate on that.
~ Rick Bragg
WIDESPREAD EVIL ALWAYS HAS ITS ROOTS IN WIDESPREAD DECEPTION
~ Rick Renner
cherished his Nebraska
~ Robert A. Carter
In April 1855 my great-granduncle Alexander Carter Jr. and his younger brother,
~ Robert A. Carter
Genuine freedom is not based upon the negative psychology of release. Its roots are in positive acts of dedication to ends and values. Freedom presupposes the autonomous existence of values which men wish to be free to follow and measure up to.
~ Robert A. Nisbet
For somehow your predecessors are more yourself than you are.
~ Robert Atwan
Not needlessly to confound the herald with the historian, and begin a relation by a pedigree, I shall content myself to inform you [only gives, thankfully, his mother and father].
~ Robert Boyle
You can take us out of Arcadia, but you cannot take Arcadia out of us." Nicholas D. Kokonis, psychologist and author of Arcadia, My Arcadia and Out of Arcadia: The American Odyssey of Angelo Vlahos
~ Robert Browning
The old blood is indeed still strong in the Two Rivers.
~ Robert Jordan
Blood of our blood mixed with the old blood, raised by an ancient blood not ours.
~ Robert Jordan
You could forget who you were if you forgot where you came from, and sometimes the innkeeper's daughter from Emond's Field seemed a stranger to her.
~ Robert Jordan
This divorce of art from technology is completely unnatural. It's just that it's gone on so long you have to be an archeologist to find out where the two separated. Rotisserie assembly is actually a long-lost branch of sculpture, so divorced from its roots by centuries of intellectual wrong turns that just to associate the two sounds ludicrous." They're
~ Robert M. Pirsig
What you are is an expression of history.
~ Robert Penn Warren
No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.
~ L.M. Montgomery
It's lovely to be going home and know it's home.
~ L.M. Montgomery
L.M. Montgomery
~ This was home.
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.
~ Laila Lalami
If I'd have wanted civilization I'd have stayed in Tennessee and wrote poetry for a living
~ Larry McMurtry
Me and Call have always liked to get where we started for, even if it don't make a damn bit of sense.
~ Larry McMurtry
Well, that's where we started for," he said. "Me and Call have always liked to get where we started for, even if it don't make a damn bit of sense.
~ Larry McMurtry
La vida sería mucho más agradable si uno pudiera llevarse a donde quiera que fuera, los sabores y olores de la casa materna.
~ Laura Esquivel
La vida sería mucho más agradable si uno pudiera llevarse a donde quiera que fuera los sabores y los olores de la casa materna.
~ Laura Esquivel