Quotes About Roots

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

No one like one's mother and father ever lived.

The roots of workaholism are truly sown in narcissistic homes; 'I do, therefore I am

However much science and educational theory and advanced thinking you pump into a college or a university, it always retains a strong hint of its medieval origins.

The family trees of the poor don't grow to any height.

Human beings, in their settled condition, are animated by oikophilia: the love of the oikos, which means not only the home but the people contained in it, and the surrounding settlements that endow that home with lasting contours and an enduring smile.

The dead and the unborn make their presence known through traditions, institutions, and laws.

My family is American, Ulysses later declared proudly, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral.

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you're from, especially if you're from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

Know from where you come. Before you know who you are and where you are going, you must know from where you come.

A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.

Our hands imbibe like roots, so i place them on what is beautiful in this world. And I fold them in prayer, and they draw from the heavens light

The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

If the majority knew of the root of this evil, then the road to its cure would not be long.

Nu-i mai bine s? r?mîi acas?? S? prinzi r?d?cini? R?d?cinile devin îns? lanÈ›uri.

Fact, I specks his mammy hatched him!

Fend kiling dorong leh warrata ka iteh tee.

How remarkable it was, she thought, that we managed to anchor ourselves at all in this world, and that we did so by giving ourselves names and linking those names with places and other people.

Anthropology, she thought, like charity, surely begins at home.