773 Quotes About Roots

Though kin scatter the earth like seed and grow apart, their paths are rooted in the same ground.

To adoptees. Never be afraid of searching for the truth. The joy that may await you will far outweigh the burden of your long journey.

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.

And though our roots belong to the same tree, our branches have grown in different directions.

Women should not feel obliged towards any men for eternity. They earned this privilege by gathering berries, digging roots, picking wild rice, and chewing the skin to make it soft for 999 thousand years, while the men were having fun in the open chasing deer and fighting among themselves.

. ..you can reach the sky only if you have deep roots in the ground. If you want to play with the wind and communicate with the stars - you need your roots to penetrate the soil, the fertile soil.

She tried to remember all the times she had spoken to him. She replayed every moment she could remember at the beach last week. Not once had she led him to believe that she liked him improperly. And yet, last night, he had appeared as if she had invited him. She had given herself so willingly, so lasciviously, that he must have thought she had desired him all along. Perhaps she had, or perhaps she had not realised how pleasurable intimacy could be.

Both were women with feet planted deep in the earth, who took pride in a back strong enough to carry a load for others.

The log on the fire: is it dreaming of the forest?