Quotes About Roots

I still close my eyes and go home . . . I can always draw from that.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

You go in there to be Irish, Danny thinks, as if you're not already, as if you can get away from it anywhere anyway.

I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.

A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies, Let the rich life run to the roots again.

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.

When we as a nation, strive in vain to preserve the beauty of our national life, forgetting our biblical roots, we are doomed.

I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

We know where we're going cause we know where we're from.

Quando você planta seu coração em um cantinho, esse lugar sempre te acompanha.

If there's a corner where you plant your heart, it's always with you.

Home is everything you can walk to.

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.

Where the roots of Western culture … considered the aim of life the perfection of man, modern man is concerned with the perfection of things, and the knowledge of how to make them.

That I am a foreigner is not my fault. I would rather have been born here.

A knight sets out to illuminate the darkness in society, not from its leaves but from its roots. This is how justice will be realized. Find the source

We stand not on the shoulders of giants, but on the shoulders of our grandparents and of our great-great-great-grandparents too.

Protestants now recognize that the Reformation itself had deeply pastoral roots. The concern was not for the reformation of doctrine and the church as such, but for the care of people in their lives before God, with the realization that thinking wrongly about God leads us to live wrongly.

It's still home, Cager, and there's something about home, no matter how untidy we've left it.

I started thinking about the roof and how I'd like to have a garden up there someday—there was sure as hell enough fertilizer already in place. I could tell I was getting tired because I was starting to think like a citizen. Putting down roots, even on a city roof, is blubber-brained. Roots are nice, but a tree can't run.

Roots are nice, but a tree can't run.