Quotes About Roots

My great strength is knowing who I am and where I come from - my island.

In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.

The history, the root, the strength of my father is the strength we now rest on.

I paint a tree - I think of how the roots go deep, deep into the earth. How the tree grows year by year toward the sky. How it stands with the winds.

Home is a place from which you can draw strength.

If your children know who God is they will know who they are, regardless of where you or they call home.

We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.

Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were. And what we remember.

What initially drew him to anatomy he felt once again on this leafy path: the sheer abundance of life, the heat of it, the connection of things, the mat of roots under the soil, so like blood and bones, the wild potato vines like arteries, the honeybees' hive, so like a heart. If he could take one thing with him to eternity, it would be the way he felt right now.

And I saw for the first time how, despite the isolation of our own lives, we are always connected to our ancestors; our bodies hold the memories of those who came before us, whether it is the features we inherit or a disposition that is etched into our soul.

The tree is only as strong as its roots, and knowledge is the root of power.

I couldn't wait to plug them in and listen to Sepultura's Roots album on them, because they're the size of the Glastonbury PA. So I put in a CD of Roots and I turned it up to 10—and that fucking record blew those speakers right out. Fifty-thousand-dollar speakers, gone because of Roots …

I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.

Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots

You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than the big city life. I truly was a country boy.

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.

Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.

Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.

Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flowerDrives my green age; that blasts the roots of treesIs my destroyer.And I am dumb to tell the crooked roseMy youth is bent by the same wintry fever.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer

We are reverting to the civilization of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accreted possessions without taking root in the earth, and may find in this the secret of their imaginative poverty.