Quotes About Roots

I loved growing up in Shaker Heights, and I really miss it.

I'm helping country sound a little more country.

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

My western heritage runs deep.

I do consider myself British. I have very strong feelings about my British heritage.

There's something about my Mexican-American heritage... I'm proud of it.

I've known where my heritage is from all along.

My parents are from Scotland and my sister and brother were both born in Scotland so my heritage is from there.

I love my heritage!

My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.

I'm very proud of my heritage.

Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background.

I always wanted my kids to be proud of their heritage.

I'm proud of my Latin American heritage.

Pretty much all my mother's side is Kiwi, and we have a strong Maori heritage.

I am very proud of my family and my heritage and my history, and I'm also proud of my own achievements.

I can't hide where I grew up or the flavors I grew up on.

My family is from Flatbush, but I grew up in Fort Greene-Clinton Hill area.

Country hillbilly music I love. Always have.

We all have those people in high school and college that we shared that important time with, but don't necessarily keep in touch with. It's the same thing with the 'Hills' crew - they'll always be a part of my roots but I don't necessarily talk to them every day.

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. If one could follow it to its psychological roots, one would, I believe, find that the main motive for non-attachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

Society is wrong somewhere at the root.

I say to you that just as weeds grow in a field wherever the farmer leaves space for their roots, even so freely do desires grow in men whenever there is a possibility of their being gratified. Thy desires are a multitude and those that thou mayest gratify are but few.

Within its gates I heard the sound Of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought To whisper what their roots had found. ("A Dream of Fear")