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 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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