Quotes About Roots

The two solutions of the equation for the Golden Ratio are: x1 = (1+ Sqr5) / 2 x2 = (1 - Sqr5) / 2

Like a tree, the Bible tells us, bitterness has roots.a Consequently, we can saw away at our frustrations, disappointments, angers, hurts, and sadness, but unless we dig up our root of bitterness, it only returns, sometimes bigger than ever.

Viking is a term—thought to have its root in the old Norse vika, meaning "to go off"—for Scandinavians who left their native land to seek wealth in commerce.

No one ever escapes Gloucester. Kids go off to college and settle somewhere else. But they always come back. If Gloucester is all you know, every place else seems a little phony.

Nature is the first and last revelation because it is the 'scripture' of the Eternal. The trace of His hand is found in every rippling field of grass or fluttering leaf or silent flower; to read them is to help recover our roots of immortality.

Under my spine, the sycamore roots suck watery salts. Root tips thrust and squirm between particles of soil, probing minutely; from their roving, burgeoning tissues spring infinitesimal root hairs, transparent and hollow, which affix themselves to specks of grit and sip. These runnels run silent and deep; the whole earth trembles, rent and fissured, hurled and drained. I wonder what happens to root systems when trees die. Do those spread blind networks starve, starve in the midst

How unhappy are they who have a gift that's left to germinate in darkness. The pale plant will sink invisible roots and live whitely off their blood.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going

For as long as I can remember, I have felt the shtetl nipping at my heels.

Over the last few decades we've been close to an all-out conflict between Christianity and Islam. If you take a long view, it's absurd; both religions have deep common roots, and both are basically creeds of peace.

I have finally learned that I am as much a part of this country as those villagers. Whether they like it or not, my umbilical cord is buried in the earth of Vietnam just like theirs.

There's no place like home, especially if it's Serenity, South Carolina.

It's like this, when you live in a place you've always lived in, where your family has always lived. You get to see things not only in space but in time too.

You see, I come from Mezritch, though I grew up in Mazapevke, but Vorotolivke is where I'm still registered.

In her soul, sin continued to exist, like roots of a weed intertwined in the soil. It no longer blossomed or flared up or smelled fragrant, but it was still there in the soil.

Their lesson was simple: our lives are nothing without our past, without our history, without our culture, without our culture and old stones. It all matters, because it gives meaning.

Human beings have roots by virtue of their real, active, and natural participation in the life of a community which preserves in living shape particular treasures of the past and particular expectations for the future.

Every human being has at his roots here below a certain terrestrial poetry, a reflection of the heavenly glory, the link, of which he is more or less vaguely conscious, with his universal country. Affliction is the tearing up of these roots.

Do the roots reveal everything to the branches, or do they keep what is painful to themselves?

It's easy to discount family. It's easy to take them for granted. But your family is your history. Your family is part of who you are.

The whole object of my life has been to inculcate into Cornish people a sense of their Cornishness.

My life is really so much based in England.

If you know from whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations on where you can go.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country