Quotes About Rootless

Ihminen voi elää juurettomana. Mutta kuolla ei voi tietämättä, mihin työntää viimeiset ja kaikkein arvokkaimmat juurensa.

By the time I graduated, I'd lost both parents and 23 was a young age to deal with a double loss like that. I felt rootless.

I'm a big fan of the blues, and a lot of those guys travelled all over America on Greyhound buses, listening to music and ending up in some juke joint, late at night, rootless and with no responsibilities - one of those gamblers who risk it all on seven is romantic and exciting.

Either I am rootless or I have my roots spread out so much that I cannot spot my primary root. I believe in Camus' philosophy - It is important to be a traveller without a baggage.

As someone who works and travels as much, you could feel... A bit rootless?

I basically live out of my truck - I mean from place to place. I feel more at home in my truck than just about anywhere, which is a sad thing to say, but it's true.

But with her I would have been faithful, with her my whole life would have been different, less rootless, less empty.

Books set in Brooklyn and L.A. are often about people who are rootless, who want to go somewhere else. In the Midwest, though, the stories are about people who want to stay where they are - who like where they are.

There's nothing better than to be rootless cosmopolitans who seamlessly merge into whatever society. That's the greatest thing human beings can aspire to. Whether forced by duress, Jews became perfect modern human beings. After the Holocaust, one doesn't really mourn for that - it's too disturbing, seems like a mistake.

I have no nationality, no country.

He hated this feeling of free-floating, just drifting from place to place, thought to thought, without any sense of anchor or root.

Finn drifted around, rootless and aimless as dandelion fluff in the wind.

I belong nowhere and to no one.

I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.

I thought its problem was the same problem many Jews have in wanting to "place" the Holocaust, to find some meaning or redemption. An end to rootless cosmopolitanism.

Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.

With a taproot sunk deeply in the unchangeable Christ, one can learn to live a relatively rootless life here with joy. Change is what the Christian ought to expect, ought to demand of himself, and ought to learn to live with. He knows that there is "no continuing city"26 here; his "citizenship is in heaven."27 Counselors with this hope can undertake the task of counseling with joy and expectation. By the grace of God, there is every hope of change!

Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.

And it is quite true that she, with the lambs, do provide me with a comfort I cannot fathom. It is a small comfort, but deep, a mother tie to this earth. I own something more, something alive. I shall have to attach myself by all these small cords lest I be rootless, now that the tap root is gone.

I am a freak in secondhand velour, a leper who uses L'Oreal Anti-sticky Mega Gel. I am rootless, ripped from all foundations, an orphan raising an orphan and wanting to take away everything there is and replace it with stuff I've made.

My wife and I sold our house New York and moved to Australia for a year; then we came back and spent almost three years bumming around the country in an old '61 VW van. We put the kids in school wherever we happened to be, but mainly we reveled in being rootless.

Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.

Were we just two more rootless jungle-dwelling erotomaniacs creamining in their pre-faded jeans over Historical New England, dreaming the old agrarian dream in their rent-a-car convertible

I don't really live anywhere.