Roots Quotes

Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consi...

I'm really in touch with my Italian roots. My mom's whole side of the family is there.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots religion, nation, com...

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig littl...

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; bu...

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Better a crust of black bread than a mountain of paper confections, Better a daisy in earth than a d...

Not many countries establish a prize for peace. The Seoul Peace Prize has its roots in the 1988 Summ...

The gap that was created during those transatlantic voyages hundreds of years ago.That gap is the ma...

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual wor...

Its culture: the fruit of its life, the product of its own efforts in thought and art. This culture ...

To get rid of a spiritual problem, we need to pull it up by its spiritual root. To pull up roots, we...

Language is the only homeland.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

Good science fiction has its roots in good science.

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached u...

The perception of the horizon is an earthbound event; all horizons disappear in space, and we are le...

It is true that the Internet can be used to disseminate falsehoods quickly, but it just as quickly r...

Often I felt that these men were play-acting: the unreality of their role was their security, even t...

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be ...

When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud ...

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribe...

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but ...

All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not ...

All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not ...

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its ro...

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the oth...

A mixture, before the English, of irritation and bafflement, of having this same language, same past...

Home's where you go when you run out of homes.

Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from...

. . . when my family headed out west, like any birth canal Rochester was forgotten.

I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nucle...

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summe...

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict...

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I wa...

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend...