Quotes About Roots

Perhaps Esperanza sank roots in her mother's womb because she knew beforehand what to expect in this world.

Nothing anywhere could be better than being at home with the home folks, she was sure.

Mid pleasures and places though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

Mid pleasures and palaces, though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

Going to college don't make you from somewhere, any more than a cat born in an over can call itself a biscuit.

To know that everyone starts on the ground. Trees, flowers, people, even the mighty sidhe must stand upon the dirt in order to move forward.

I handed my tools. The two of them reached down to help me out of the crater I'd dug. ''Isn't that a little deep?'' Yoda asked. ''It'll help the roots get established,'' I explained. ''Established where? China?

I settled for a cup of coffee. Only it wasn't coffee. It was a coffee substitute made by grinding up dandelion roots. The idea was that it wouldn't keep you awake, and it's always seemed to me that the only thing coffee really has going for it is that it will keep you awake.

Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional society which produced us.

I was a Southerner and had the map of Dixie on my tongue.

Any small thing that reminds me of home is a treasure. Sometimes it's small—a bowl of soup that makes me think of my mother—or it's a color. I saw a blue parasol in the crowd this afternoon that reminded me of the lake by the waterwheel in Schilpario. It's the kind of thing that catches you unaware and fills you with a deep longing for everything you once knew. Don't apologize for loving this tree. If I had a tree, I'd feel the same.

Adriana Trigiani

tradition, properly cared for, nurtured, honored, and respected, continues to feed the soul of a family.

If Mr. Darwin were to be believed, then it was from the timeless dapple of the forest's canopy that men had first descended, and it was the forest's roots that drank men's bodies when they died, returned their vital salts back to the prehistoric treetops in gold elevator cages made of sap.

The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

Using Twitter like a dandelion uses the wind... Spreading messages, not exactly knowing where they might go, some taking roots and blossoming, some making a adventurous journey through the air but not falling on fertile ground. So what? A process of beauty and joy.

Home was homeless. It could exist anywhere, because its only substance was familiarity.

My family were from Jamaica.

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years - now it's called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports.

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.