773 Quotes About Roots

We leave, we run away and don't realize how much we'll need to go back home one day. The South is like that. It's the worst mama in the world and it's the best mama in the world.

We are the true roots of resistance, they declared, and the scraggly leaves, golden flowers, and windborne seeds.

I was becoming a tree rooted in the soil of tragedy, he said, and with every fresh reading I was watering the roots, sinking deeper, allowing my pain to grow stronger. "Plant your roots in fresh soil," he told me. And so my words were shut away.

Blessed be that which gives your children wings and roots’ says an Arabic proverb. He needed his roots. There is a place in the world where we are born, where we learn our mother tongue and discover how our ancestors overcame the problems they had to face. He needed wings too. They reveal to us the endless horizons of the imagination, they carry us to our dreams and to distant places. It is our wings that allow us to know the roots of our fellow men and learn from them.

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.Deborah Norville

Never forget where it all began-never forget your roots

A tree torn from its roots dies, a man begins to live.

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

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