Quotes About Roots

Envy is a one-dimensional, shallow emotion. It roots in superficial soil and withers in the bright light of intimacy.

Doesn't matter what life you choose – your family will always be a part of you.

I know people not from here probably don't understand our feeling for these hills. Our love for land not spectacular. Our mountains are not like Western ones, those jagged awesome ones, your eyes always pulled to their tops. But that is the difference, I decided. In the West, the mountains are mostly horizon. We live in our mountains. It's not just the tops, but the sides that hold us.

This is where I come from. And it's where you come from. You'll never get away from that, and don't you forget it.

Allegiance to a belief system can have deep, non-rational roots

A traveler can meet a man born in Poland, brought up in the Soviet Union, who now lives in Belarus – and he has never left his village.

I think we've come home.

Orthodoxy is our roots, the roots from which our country evolved,

Land lasts longer than blood or love. It is not like a river.

The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have.

I call myself Zimerican. I was born in the Midwest to Zimbabwean parents. My father was a professor at Grinnell College in Iowa.

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.

Getting to know where we come from is a really profound way of getting to look at who we are.

I love Richmond. I think growing up here had a profound influence on my music.

I'm Latino, progressive, and I have deep roots in the working class - my father was a bracero, a guest farmworker and cook, and my mom worked as a nursing home laundry attendant.

I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense of color, adventure, communication and openness that defines our country.

I'm a proper Essex girl because my family was part of that great exodus from the East End.

When you shampoo your hair, you're trying to get the oil out of your roots, but you really want the rest of your hair to maintain its moisture. When you put coconut oil on the ends, the shampoo gets oil out of the roots, but also protects the ends.

I think what I've learned out of this lifetime is you should be proud of where you come from.

I have the Mexican blood. I'm proud to be Mexican.

I am proud of my Sindhi roots.

I'm one hundred percent Irish, and I'm very proud that I'm Irish American, though I don't know exactly where my ancestors came from. I just know County Cork.

We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.

I want to make people of Punjab, my parents, and grandparents proud.