Quotes About Roots

A man should be proud of his heritage—not arrogant, as if it made him superior, but happy to own it and live up to the best in its promise. Monk

ancestor, and the combination was

Your work is a tree. The roots live in the soil of dreams and desires. Not the dreams and desires of everyone, simply those you seek to serve.

Between the two of us, we've got a family tree rooted in Hell!

My parents came from poor people who came from poor people who came from poor people, all the way back to the very first poor people.

Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.' (Talon)

In my mind, my music is kind of inseparable from my hometown and my life growing up.

My roots were pretty far removed from high income. It's interesting to be back there at the level of income I have now, at this stage in my life.

Apart from life, a strong constitusion and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla

I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.

I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.

I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.

We moved up to Oregon when I was eight, and I think the radical absence of Jewish life here might have strangely made me feel more Jewish. It's a contextual thing I guess.

I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at home, and very basic Mandarin.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

The seeds that we speed into life to be trees, will soon become fallen if thier roots aren't deep.

Canada is a big part of my life.

it seems to be intricately connected with the nature of human greed, the roots of our destructiveness, and the future consequences of our collective behavior. For the abductees, the encounters can be profoundly "enlightening" in the fullest sense.

Cultures are not that easily disposed of.' She looked over the dark lake, then began again. 'You can prune and shape the young tree, but the roots go deep. To tear them out is painful, perhaps impossible. And the long taproot may stay in the soil without your knowing.

Goldsboro, North Carolina.

the scarlet thread,the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we began ...

Mankind is one thing; a man's self is another. What that self is tangles itself knottily with what his people were, and what they came out of. Mine came out of Texas, as did I. If those were louts, they were my own louts.

Mid pleasures and palaces though I may roam, be it ever so humble there's no place like home.