Quotes About Roots

I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.

The root causes of terrorism is terrorists.

We are connected, like it or not, to the ancestors of our biological families, and their templates

My dad played fiddle as well.

Human emotions have deep evolutionary roots, a fact that may explain their complexity and provide tools for clinical practice. The Nature of Emotions (2001)

Utter loneliness was planted in me then, and sent its deep roots down into me.

You and I, we are like buds grafted onto a tree. We can grow true to ourselves, but only so much as our roots will allow us

There is an immense difference between having money and true wealth. My family has wealth. Wealth takes generations. Wealth has roots that stretch far and wide, and branches that reach out and twine through a city. You can take money and run away with it, but when the money is gone, you are poor. And all you have before you is the prospect of long years of very hard work so you can build a foundation for wealth for the next generation.

Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose.

Sweetgrass is best planted not by seed, but by putting roots directly in the ground. Thus the plant is passed from hand to earth to hand across years and generations. Its favored habitat is sunny, well-watered meadows. It thrives along disturbed edges.

The roots may spread out like a map, but a map only helps if you know where you want to go.

I wanted to know where he felt most nurtured and supported. What is the place that you understand best? That you know best and knows you in return?

After the drumbeat of my mother's heart, this was my first language.

When we call a place by its name, it is transformed from wilderness to homeland.

Sweetgrass is best planted not by seed, but by putting roots directly in the ground. Thus the plant is passed from hand to earth to hand across years and generations.

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.

its earliest roots to the luxuriant lemon groves around Palermo, arising from a unique set of circumstances in the 1800s, which combined legal, social, political, and even agricultural factors.

The fallen leaves return to the root.

Hyacinth bean and papayas, long vines, deep roots. Palm trees outside the garden walls, with deep roots, stand a thousand years.

People keep asking me why I don't return to China. I tell them I can't return to a place I've never been. In

He wondered what it would be like to grow up in one place and stay there all your life, to forever be defined by your childhood relationships, to never know if you got to be the person you wanted to be, to always be the person you were when you were young.

Grandparents. It meant parents-of-the-parents, long ago.' 'Back and back and back?' Jonas began to laugh.

Jonas began to laugh. "So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents?

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is.