Quotes About Roots

The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.

Well, we were here, first-generation Americans, our language was English and a language is a spiritual mansion from which no one can evict us.

Wohl dem, der seiner Väter gern gedenkt, Der froh von ihren Taten, ihrer Größe, Den Hörer unterhält und still sich freuend Ans Ende dieser schönen Reihe sich Geschlossen sieht!

Trials in this life will expose what is in your heart—whether the offense is toward God or others. Tests either make you bitter toward God and your peers or stronger. If you pass the test, your roots will shoot down deeper, stabilizing you and your future. If you fail, you become offended, which can lead to defilement with bitterness.

Man takes root at his feet, and at best he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.

Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

Every word has a history. Every word has an image locked into its roots.

Gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change, and break away. I won't forget the place I came from.

I will always approach life from a small-town vibe. It makes experiences more fantastical.

Inside me I'm Ghanaian, and I'm proud to be African. But of course I'm Italian. I was born in Italy. I've never been to Africa in my life, but I will go one day.

Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.

It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is the slow product of the age long growth of the national life.

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.

All ministry that is faithful & eventually fruitful finds its roots in the life, death, & resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Whether we like it or not, we all come from someplace. And at some point in our lives, we have to make peace with that place.

Aledo will always be home to me because I spent the first 27 years of my life there - it's such a special place - and because of the experiences I had there, I've become the person I am today.

Owning a property is great as that's my base and the centre of my family life.

I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.

I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.

I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

We leave, we run away and don't realize how much we'll need to go back home one day. The South is like that. It's the worst mama in the world and it's the best mama in the world.

Some of our people that are dead took the original of their death here.

How wonderful it is to have a place to return to.

There is a growing wave in this country of fear, and of intolerance which springs from fear. Sometimes it is a religious intolerance, sometimes it is a racial intolerance, but all intolerance grows from the same roots.