Quotes About Roots

History goes over the top like a steamroller, she said, crushing everything in its path, whereas childhood kills the roots. And that is the poison, she said, that seeps into the soil.

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

Sometimes you hear about people who can't wait to leave their hometown. I did not have that feeling at all. I love San Jose, I love the Bay Area, and I love coming home to visit.

You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.

After living out of a suitcase for years, it's a feeling of peace to wake up in the night and know where I am.

Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.

'Waking the Fallen' truly encompasses everything that Avenged Sevenfold was at that time. It was us being fearless, us showing our roots in heavy metal, punk, rock n' roll, and not being afraid to try everything under the sun when it comes to writing music.

My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales.

I haven't become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It's just a convenience thing living there. I carry Wales around inside me. I'd consider moving back there one day. I never really left.

We moved to Wales when I was quite young, but we frequently visited the rest of my family, especially my mother's side.

I started singing because I come from Wales.

I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.

My mom's half-Irish, and my dad's half-Irish. We don't know much about my mom's side, but my dad's mom came from Belfast and married my grandfather, who was from Wales.

I come from south Wales. A place called Aberbargoed.

I was born in London but brought up in Wales from the age of two.

There was never a question of who I was going to play for. The English showed a bit of interest, but I was born in Wales raised in Wales so there was never any doubt about that.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.

My father is a Malayalee, my mother is a Bengali.

My father is a Sindhi and my mother, a Bengali.

My little girl was born in Los Angeles, and my wife was born in Bethlehem, Pa.

My mum came from an incredibly big family.

I'm not a big fan of moving from city to city.