Quotes About Uprooting

It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.

This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of slavery and redemption, of improbable paradises, of equally mythical and improbable enemies; cosmic enemies, perverse and subtle, who pervade everything like the air.

About ten to twelve million people were forced to leave their homes and cross the new border.102

Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come Into the desolation of reality.

To nourish a tree you must get to the roots, the same is true if you must uproot it.

God uproots the vine that He Himself has not planted.

My brother John loved Big Bill Broonzy, and from that, Angus and I discovered Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy. We could relate to what they were singing about. When a family uproots itself and moves to the other side of the world because your dad couldn't get a job, you didn't feel part of the system, if there even was a system.

All the other houses have been pulled out of the street like bad teeth.

What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place.

Our basic aim is to liberate the land from the Mediterranean Seas to the Jordan River. We are not concerned with what took place in June 1967 or in eliminating the the consequences of the June war. The Palestinian revolution's basic concern is the uprooting of the Zionist entity from our land and liberating it.

'Deracine' is French for uprooting, or someone who's been displaced from their natural environment.

Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.

I don't think it's fair to a family to uproot them simply because it's profitable for you to do so.

But, really, such an uprooting is instinctual. Time to rebel. Internal gears began to grind, propelling you forward—then you invent the reasons. My

Part of the process of getting out, of uprooting, is to shed origins. In Rome, as elsewhere in my family, the past was less a source of fascination than a thing to be overcome.

When will we realize that the concessions we have made to faith in our political discourse have prevented us from even speaking about, much less uprooting, the most prolific source of violence in our history?

To ABERUNCATE  (ABERU'NCATE)   v.a.[averunco, Lat.] To pull up by the roots; to extirpate utterly.Dict.

I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly.

Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.

It was the kind of herd mentality that was so prevalent in this world - when one person was doing something that looked amazing in photos, the community followed suit, even if it meant completely uprooting one's life.

Like travel, insomnia is an uprooting experience. You are torn out of sleep like a plant from its native soil, then shaken down so that any clinging vestige of slumber falls away, naked confusion exposed like nerve endings. Sleep, in its turn, is a matter of gravity. It pulls you down, beds you in the earth, burrows you in. In sleep you connect back to the bedrock that provides nourishment and restorative rest.

I try to wrest myself from everything, to raise myself by uprooting myself; in order to become futile, we must sever our roots, must become metaphysically alien.

Why uproot a perfectly healthy white blazing star from the soil to allow room for a roadside weed?

I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else.