Quotes About Roots

There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder!

Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.

Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.

My hands resemble some ancient tree: the roots that bind up the earth, the rock and the ceaselessly nibbling wordms.

Meine Erdäpfel," he said. "My earth apples.

There is much talk nowadays of blood and soil [Blut und Boden] as frequently invoked powers. Literati, whom one comes across even today, have already seized hold of them. Blood and soil are certainly powerful and necessary, but they are not a sufficient condition for the Dasein of a people.

As far as my own orientation goes, in any case, I know that, according to our human experience and history, everything essential and of great magnitude has arisen only out of the fact that man had a home and was rooted in a tradition. Contemporary literature, for example, is largely destructive.

we are the sum of all the dead that went before us. And

Chaldean roots which are surely to be traced in the Cornish branch of the great Celtic speech.

There are so many roots to the tree of anger / that sometimes the branches shatter / before they bear.-Audre Lorde Happy Bornday Blessings Audre Lorde

Everything important originated with nothingness.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Furious and wild with fear, the potatoes flailed the air with their leaves and stamped their roots, but obviously this got them nowhere.

Who we are takes generations to create and doesn't end with death.

There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm

For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root - Thoreau

It was only thanks to the natives' skills as fishermen and root collectors that the Americans were able to survive.

That's how you know you're home, I think, no matter how far you've gone from it or how long you've been in some other place. Home is where they want you to stay longer.

The Black Angel came up from the roots and down from the branches. Her fingers are death and her hair is full of cobwebs and dream is her kingdom.

everyone thinks that other places is more fun than staying at home, but at the end..you will be coming home, because..that's where you belong to..

We all seek that somewhere to which we belong and that somewhere is surely not here!

the more the tree goes up in the air, the more it goes down into the earth. Remember humility in greatness.

It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree's greatest strength lies.

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.