Quotes About Rootedness

I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at Meadowbrook Elementary School and then Meadowbrook Middle School. I learned to dance at Meadowbrook Country Club. All those things grounded me in one place and I think most of Fort Worth is just like the area I grew up in.

We have to learn to become solid and stable like an oak tree, and not be blown from side to side by the storm.

Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.

Everyone is so estranged; no one is rooted. That's what I like to write about more than anything else. Everything being so mixed up. Racially mixed up, people moving from place to place, everything shifting.

A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane

Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.

It seemed that our family had been on this land for thousands of years; that we had sprung from the earth, born of its flesh like a tree or a flower, deep-rooted, not by our feet, but by our hearts.

I feel very much rooted in being Egyptian, and I also feel very rooted in being a guy from New Jersey.

Cora was like a tree—once rooted, she stood, in spite of storms and strife, wind, and rocks, in the earth.

How long, I wonder, does it take a thing or a place or even a person to feel like home?

To have such a deep taproot in a single place, to be immersed in it so thoroughly that it had steeped into every fiber of your being: she couldn't imagine it.

Plantearse el problema del crimen organizado y de su arraigo en Tierra Caliente como un asunto de buenos contra malos fue uno de los errores del gobierno de Felipe Calderón. Vistos desde afuera, sin un conocimiento de la zona y de su historia, todos los habitantes de la región podían entrar en la definición de malos.

Families used to come from somewhere, and that's where they stayed.

Love in this world doesn't come out of thin air. It is not something thought up. Like ourselves, it grows out of the ground. It has a body and a place.

He thought rightly that we Americans, by inclination at least, have been divided into two kinds: "boomers" and "stickers." Boomers, he said, are "those who pillage and run," who want "to make a killing and end up on Easy Street," whereas stickers are "those who settle, and love the life they have made and the place they have made it in.

Love in this world doesn't come out of thin air. It is not something thought up. Like ourselves, it grows out of the ground. It has a body and a place.

When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft, and true witnesses without being manipulative.

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.

For me, a relationship with a place is very fundamental. When you're moving - when you're leaving your life and the place where you've lived on a semi-regular basis - you tend to connect the sense of your entire life to that place that you've left.

I've always been interested in rootedness - mainly, I suppose, because I had very little experience of it.

the rooted person is able to meditate—give sustained attention to—the revelation of God. Not swipe, not multitask. Lingering focus.

If you let yourself be blown to and fro, you lose touch with your root. If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you are. LAO-TZU, Tao-te-Ching