Quotes About Roots

I said to him that Zululand sounded fine, but that every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forget this map.

She was crying because she was far from home, and who among us has never wanted to do that? There need be no other reason; just that. We cry for home, and for flowers on tables, and biscuits in little tins, and for mother; and we feel embarrassed, and foolish too, that we should be crying for such things; but we should not feel that way because all of us, in a sense, have strayed from home, and wish to return.

Yet she was determined that when she married she would not forget who she was and who her people were. She would not affect any airs.

every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forget this map.

That was the marvelous thing about going back to one's roots; there was no need for explanation.

for too easily we come to love love first and not...that from which it comes.

Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it.

All that stuff, tradition and heritage. It's dead people's baggage. Quit carrying it.

My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my master, the Buddha.

All I care about is money and the city that Im from.

One returns to the place one came from.

This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life's long race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.

An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.

All my life is in Spain. I will stay.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.

Life is good when you live from your roots. Your values are a critical source of energy, enthusiasm, and direction. Work is meaningful and fun when it's an expression of your true core.

That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

Home. It's where we come from. Who we are.

Home is our starting point for connecting to the past.

One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist.

Don't miss the heart issues when dealing with the surface problems!

Yet there still was love, the placid love that only time can cultivate, a love preserved by habit and by memory. Their tree had little rising sap, perhaps, but it was held firm by deep and ancient roots.

Once you work the soil, you belong to it. For so long now he had passed over the surface of the earth like wind over a desert, like shifting sand.