Quotes about Roots

We cannot have the fruits of the gospel without its roots.

One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious.

I still live in Sweden. That's my base. When I'm not working, I'm there.

The archetypal idea of "home" points in two directions at once. It points backward toward an original hint and taste for union, starting in the body of our mother.

When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the plants and whether they're getting enough water and if their roots are deep enough. Soil under the fingernails, grapes being trampled under bare feet, fingers sticky from handling fresh fruit. It's that green stripe you get around the sole of your shoes when you mow the lawn. Life in the age to come. Earthy.

Freedom has its roots in religion.

I grew up in a small town in West Virginia, and most of my family lived in our neighborhood or very close by. I had my grandparents down the street, my great-grandmother next door, and my great-aunt and great-uncle one door down.

I'm not a practicing Jew but my great-grandparents were. It's part of our family history.

Oh, I grew up in Seattle.

Our actual ultimate root is in our humanity, not in our personal genealogy.

You can become interested too late to realize how important your family tree is. The

What holds the laws of a nation? It is the moral soil that must hold the roots.