Roots Quotes

States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them

No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

The land was ours before we were the land’s She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people ...

Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more than the total weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.

Nobody can send me to Pakistan. India is my country, and I love my country. Five generations of my family have lived and died on this land, and even my children will live in this country because this is my homeland.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

I'm very aware of my own background. I'm Irish, French, and then a little bit of everything else thrown in, ranging from German to Native American. We're talking about tiny drops of blood.

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain.

Something aches at the very core of me, something ancient and deep and stronger than words: the filament that joins each of us to the root of existence, that ancient thing unfurling and resisting and grappling, desperately, for a foothold, a way to stay here, breathe, keep going.

You never get away from that thing in your hometown that it has over you. You don't outgrow where you come from.

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or care a farthing for, has been in England these one hundred and fifty years; so that you see I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.

I am half Scottish. My father is an expat from Glasgow, and on my mother's side there's a bit of French, a bit of Scottish, a bit of Irish.

I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.'

As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.

For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.

My roots were pretty far removed from high income. It's interesting to be back there at the level of income I have now, at this stage in my life.

I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out that's going to do that - it's looking in.

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

My family is from Elmhurst, Queens, 54th Avenue, but I was born in Northern California.

Visit to Africa reshaped my point-of-view of colonialism. It reshaped my point-of-view of my own sense of source, and my own place of birth. It made it more organic inside of me, because it placed me in a position where my job was to understand and to become more African.

Don't forget how you got here. Don't Forget.