Quotes about Roots
Because I have never separated myself from my home neighborhood, I cannot identify myself to myself apart from it. I am fairly literally flesh of its flesh. It is present in me, and to me, wherever I go. This
— Wendell Berry
What I am has been to a considerable extent determined by what my forebears were, by how they chose to treat this place while they lived in it;
— Wendell Berry
when she spoke even now, after forty years, among the slurred consonants and the flat vowels of the land where her life had been cast, New England talked as plainly as it did in the speech of her kin who had never left New Hampshire
— William Faulkner
I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.
— George W. Bush
If I penetrate to the depths of my existence, the indefinable, am, that is myself in its deepest roots, then through this deep center I pass into the infinite I am, which is the very nature of the Almighty.
— Thomas Merton
Mothers, on the other hand, are trees with firm roots.
— Isabel Allende
A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.
— Woodrow Wilson
Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go.
— Anonymous
for one's language, the one we dream in, is home.
— Toni Morrison
I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.
— George W. Bush
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
— John Quincy Adams