773 Quotes About Roots
- Author Pete Seeger
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Maybe Americans have found it easier to latch on to new traditions because we are uprooted people, and have few deep roots.
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- Author Isak Dinesen
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It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose Native land you take. It is their past as well, their roots and their identity. If you take away the things that they have been used to see, and will be expecting to see, you may, in a way, as well take their eyes.
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- Author Richard Ayoade
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For a tree without a past is like a man without roots; and unless we stand in rich soil, our leaves will blow like blossom into the night.
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- Author I. M. Pei
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don’t want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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- Author Curtis Tyrone Jones
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Dig deep & pull the roots of confidence from the ground of your being, standing firm in the raging storm until sunlight blossoms inside you.
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- Author Mark Helprin
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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.
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- Author Minster Faust
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that means that to be Africentric I need to remember my ancestors, which is the way to resurrect myself.
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- Author Saleem Haddad
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Digging through my roots to understand the way my branches grew.
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- Author John Fowles
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A mixture, before the English, of irritation and bafflement, of having this same language, same past, so many same things, and yet not belonging to them any more. Being worse than rootless... speciesless.
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