What is good short Roots quote?

"People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots." - Tom Robbins

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Q: What is the best Roots quote?

"I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance." - Beryl Markham

Q: What are some Roots quotes?

"Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me." - Hugo Hamilton "You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree." - Malcolm X "Language is the only homeland." - Czesław Miłosz

Q: What are some short Roots quotes?

"The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man." - Milan Kundera "Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots." - Mark Helprin "A tree without roots is just a piece of wood." - Marco Pierre White

The gap that was created during those transatlantic voyages hundreds of years ago.That gap is the matrix of Saudade – The Longing, I think, that all Africans in the West have, that is at the root of the blues and jazz and soul and rap. If you listen you can hear it, elusive, fleeting, full of melancholy anger.

Language is the only homeland.

Belonging Quotes Home Quotes Language Quotes Roots Quotes

Do the roots reveal everything to the branches, or do they keep what is painful to themselves?

Pain Quotes / Branches Quotes Roots Quotes Trees Quotes

Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family's life have been enriched by this. I think a writer has to experience new environments. There is that adage: No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.

Countries Quotes Domicile Quotes Experiences Quotes Family Quotes Living Quotes Move Quotes

In her fury she'd broken into Valencian, indicating the deepest possible roots in the land. I was impressed with how deeply she was from here, in a way I could never imagine being from anywhere, not even my home town.

Culture Quotes Heritage Quotes Roots Quotes Wanderlust Quotes Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents Quotes

Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.

Country Quotes Individuality Quotes Inspirational Quotes / Anchoring Quotes Attachment Quotes Belonging Quotes Empowerment Quotes Home Quotes Homelessness Quotes

It's been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds and my mother was the roots with both feet planted firmly on terra quaking firma.

Children Quotes Father Quotes Grace Quotes Life Quotes Mother Quotes Parents Quotes

He should have seen this coming, but he hadn't. Of course she wouldn't want to move back to Wynette after everything that had happened to her there. But what about his family, his friends, his roots, which stretched so deep into that rocky soil he'd become part of it?

Call me irresistible Quotes Hometown Quotes Roots Quotes

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

Nature Quotes / Roots Quotes Tree Quotes

Especially at a time when one's life was new, roots helped.

Change Quotes / Belonging Quotes Blueprints Quotes Changes Quotes Roots Quotes

Vivo en los Estados Unidos y soy chilena, sangre, voluntad y memoria. Al llegar a este país me obligaron a llenar un formulario en el cual había una casilla referente a la raza: la primera alternativa era blanca, la cual iba a automáticamente yo a marcar, cuando leí más abajo la palabra “Hispanic”. Me pareció una enorme incultura por parte de los funcionarios gringos ya que lo hispano no se refiere a una raza, pero abismada comprendí que por primera vez en mi vida me expulsaban de mi propio nicho, de lo que creía mi identidad natural y objetiva, aunque entre una norteamericana y yo no mediase la más mínima diferencia física ( más aún en este caso específico: soy pelirroja, hasta me parezco a ellos ). Ni que decirlo, marqué con saña el segundo cuadrado y cada día transcurrido de estos seis años me he ido apegando más y más a él. Cuando camino por las calles de la ciudad, a veces me da la impresión de que todos mis antepasados están allí, en la pulcra e impersonal boca del metro, con la esperanza de llegar a alguna parte. Todo chicano o salvadoreño despreciable es mi tío, el hondureño que retira la basura es mi novio. Cuando Reina se declara a sí misma una desclasada, sé exactamente a que se refiere. Toda mi vida ha corrido por este lado del mundo. Mi cuna real y ficticia, el lugar donde nací y el otro que fui adquiriendo, lucen oropeles muy americanos ( ¡ no acepto que ese adjetivo se lo atribuyan los del norte! América es tanto la de arriba como la de abajo, norte y sur tan americanos uno como el otro). Trazo los dos puntos del continente para señalar los míos y agrego un tercero, éste. Dos de ellos resultan razonablemente cercanos, y luego, inevitable, la línea larga baja y baja hasta llegar al sur, hasta lo que, a mi pesar, debo reconocer como el fin del mundo. Sólo los hielos eternos más allá de esa tierra. Allí nací. Mapuches o españoles, fluidas, impredecibles, vigorosas, allí están mis raíces.

Discrimination Quotes Lo que está en mi corazón Quotes Memoria Quotes Racism Quotes Roots Quotes

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

Hatred Quotes Origins Quotes Racism Quotes Roots Quotes

Often I felt that these men were play-acting: the unreality of their role was their security, even their own destinies were to them saga and folk-tale rather than a private matter; these were men under a spell, men who had been turned into birds or even more likely into some strange beast, and who bore their magic shapes with the same unflurried equanimity, magnanimity, and dignity that we children had marvelled at the beasts of fairy tale. Did they not suspect, moreover, with the wordless apprehension of animals, that if their magic shapes were to be stripped from them the fairy tale would be at an end and their security gone, too, while real life would begin with all it's problems, perhaps in some town where there was neither nature or mirage, no link with the folk-tale and the past, no ancient path to the far side of the mountains and down to the river gullies and out beyond the grass plains, no landmarks from the Sagas? - Only a restless search for sterile, deadening enjoyment.

Nature Quotes / Culture Quotes Folklore Quotes Life Quotes Roots Quotes The Atom Station Quotes

Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.

Travel Quotes / Roots Quotes Winters tale Quotes

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

Humanity Quotes Nature Quotes Philosophy Quotes / Human condition Quotes Life Quotes Nurture Quotes Roots Quotes The Unbearable Lightness of Being Quotes

The Hell's Angels are very definitely a lower-class phenomenon, but their backgrounds are not necessarily poverty-stricken. Despite some grim moments, their parents seem to have had credit. Most of the outlaws are the sons of people who came to California either just before or during World War II. Many have lost contact with their families, and I have never met an Angel who claimed to have a hometown in any sense that people who use that term might understand it. Terry the Tramp, for instance, is "from" Detroit, Norfolk, Long Island, Los Angeles, Fresno and Sacramento. As a child, he lived all over the country, not in poverty but in total mobility. Like most of the others, he has no roots. He relates entirely to the present, the moment, the action.

Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga Quotes Roots Quotes

Leaving home's a cinch. It's the staying, once you've found it, that takes courage.

Fear Quotes Travel Quotes / Bravery Quotes Home Quotes Roots Quotes

These people came into the world and left it bound to their soil, proliferating on their own dung-hills with slow deliberation like the uncomplicated soul of trees which scatter their seed about their feet, with little conception of any larger world beyond the dun rocks among which they vegetated.

La Faute de l'abbé Mouret Quotes Land Quotes Roots Quotes

Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it'll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it.

Civilization Quotes Fear Quotes War Quotes / Belonging Quotes Chaos Quotes Destruction Quotes Insecurity Quotes Misogyny Quotes Racism Quotes

If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?""Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.

A Rare Benedictine Quotes Anchoring Quotes Arrival Quotes Attachment Quotes Belonging Quotes Completion Quotes

Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.

Evil Quotes Struggle Quotes / Away Quotes Conflict Quotes Fantasy Quotes Fernweh Quotes Good Quotes Heimweh Quotes

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.

Future Quotes Memories Quotes Moving on Quotes / Anchoring Quotes Attachment Quotes Belonging Quotes Home Quotes Homelessness Quotes Leaving Quotes

Good science fiction has its roots in good science.

Angels & Demons Quotes Books Quotes Origins Quotes Roots Quotes Science fiction Quotes Scifi Quotes

People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Quotes Roots Quotes

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