Quotes about Roots

Roots can exist without flowers, but no flower can exist without roots. Religion may be a flower, but people are its roots.

Without roots a tree, no matter how tall, cannot stand.

The roots of the strongest tree grow deep.

It is absurd and a detestable shame, that we should suffer those traditions to be changed which we have received from the fathers of old.

Down there among the roots where the flowers decayed, gusts of dead smells were wafted; drops formed on the bloated sides of swollen things. The skin of rotten fruit broke, and matter oozed too thick to run.

Women have their roots in the ground, and often those roots are starved and ravaged, yet there is not a human alive who cannot reach and touch, with... her fingers, the very top of God's rainbow.

Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

women have their roots in the ground, and often those roots are starved and ravaged, yet there is not a human alive who cannot reach and touch, with... her fingers, the very top of God's rainbow.

I'm just a politician from Missouri and proud of it.

I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.

And yet in Port William, as everywhere else, it was already the second decade of the twentieth century. And in some of the people of the town and the community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were someplace else.

To feel at home in a place, you have to have some prospect of staying there.