Roots Quotes
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“Some say that my teaching is nonsense.
Other call it lofty but impractical.
But to those who have looked inside themselves,
this nonsense makes perfect sense.
And to those who put it into practice,
this loftiness has roots that go deep.”
― Tao Te Ching
Other call it lofty but impractical.
But to those who have looked inside themselves,
this nonsense makes perfect sense.
And to those who put it into practice,
this loftiness has roots that go deep.”
― Tao Te Ching

“Its culture: the fruit of its life, the product of its own efforts in thought and art. This culture is not international. It is the expression of the national genius, of the blood. The culture is international in its brilliance but national in origin. Someone made a fine comparison: bread and wheat may be internationally consumed, but they always bear the imprint of the soil from which they came.”
― For My Legionaries
― For My Legionaries

“Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in other things, like my music, stories and my journey. The last years I have more or less constantly been on my way, on the road, always leaving and never arriving, which also means leaving people. I鈥檝e loved and lost and I have regrets and I miss and no matter how many times you leave, start over, achieve success or travel places it鈥檚 other people that matter. People, friends, family, lovers, strangers 鈥 they will forever stay with you, even if only through memory. I鈥檝e grown to appreciate people to the deepest core and I鈥檓 trying to learn how to tell people what I want to tell them when I have the chance, before it鈥檚 too late. 鈥”
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“If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it.”
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“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
― Hell's Angels

“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.”
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“Some trees are too deeply rooted to move 鈥 And if they are uprooted, they will die鈥”
― The Gilded Mirror: Constantinople
― The Gilded Mirror: Constantinople

“Thoughts are roots; Words are leaves; Actions are fruits! Every success tree has all working normally!”
― The Great Hand Book of Quotes
― The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“This is an organic religion. A religion of the people from heart to heart; a faith that finds the presence of the Divine within life, and nature, and ourselves. We don't have teachers and books because we are our own teachers, and our book is the sacred book of the Earth. We believe that we can connect with the God and Goddess and hear their voices, receive their inspiration directly and take responsibility for our own actions, without the intermediary of a pope or rabbi. We have a loose set of beliefs and morals and a ritual structure that is common to all Wiccans, but there is room for creativity and deep mystical experiences. This is a faith with roots as old as the earth. --Meri Fowler”
― Out of the Broom Closet: 50 True Stories of Witches Who Found and Embraced the Craft
― Out of the Broom Closet: 50 True Stories of Witches Who Found and Embraced the Craft

“Every tree in the forest has a story to tell. Some of them were burnt but they endured the fire and got revived; some of them were cut, their barks injured, some people pick up their leaves to make medicines for their sicknesses, birds used their leaves to make their nests, etc. Upon all these, the tree is still tree!”
― Shaping the dream
― Shaping the dream

“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.”
― Grace
― Grace

“In my mind, I could sense their roots under the soil, creeping in helical tangles of ever-increasing complexity outward and in all directions鈥攐ut beyond the perimeter of the Helsing酶r Wood, out below Yami鈥檚 Under City, out along the banks of the river, out to the nearest coast and thereupon out into the sea; the roots crept down further along the continental shelf, downward into the abysses, downward into the ocean floor, burrowing under the corals and under trenches, and then back up again to sprout in the darkened forest on a foreign continent: all the trees of the world now had conjoined roots, for they were now of one conjoined consciousness!”
― Only the Deplorable
― Only the Deplorable

“Focus on keeping faith and growing your roots of light so strong and deep that no one, not even yourself, can make you believe something about yourself that is not good for your soul.”
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“Vivo en los Estados Unidos y soy chilena, sangre, voluntad y memoria. Al llegar a este pa铆s me obligaron a llenar un formulario en el cual hab铆a una casilla referente a la raza: la primera alternativa era blanca, la cual iba a autom谩ticamente yo a marcar, cuando le铆 m谩s abajo la palabra 鈥淗ispanic鈥. Me pareci贸 una enorme incultura por parte de los funcionarios gringos ya que lo hispano no se refiere a una raza, pero abismada comprend铆 que por primera vez en mi vida me expulsaban de mi propio nicho, de lo que cre铆a mi identidad natural y objetiva, aunque entre una norteamericana y yo no mediase la m谩s m铆nima diferencia f铆sica ( m谩s a煤n en este caso espec铆fico: soy pelirroja, hasta me parezco a ellos ). Ni que decirlo, marqu茅 con sa帽a el segundo cuadrado y cada d铆a transcurrido de estos seis a帽os me he ido apegando m谩s y m谩s a 茅l. Cuando camino por las calles de la ciudad, a veces me da la impresi贸n de que todos mis antepasados est谩n all铆, en la pulcra e impersonal boca del metro, con la esperanza de llegar a alguna parte. Todo chicano o salvadore帽o despreciable es mi t铆o, el hondure帽o que retira la basura es mi novio. Cuando Reina se declara a s铆 misma una desclasada, s茅 exactamente a que se refiere.
Toda mi vida ha corrido por este lado del mundo. Mi cuna real y ficticia, el lugar donde nac铆 y el otro que fui adquiriendo, lucen oropeles muy americanos ( 隆 no acepto que ese adjetivo se lo atribuyan los del norte! Am茅rica 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 se帽alar los m铆os y agrego un tercero, 茅ste. Dos de ellos resultan razonablemente cercanos, y luego, inevitable, la l铆nea larga baja y baja hasta llegar al sur, hasta lo que, a mi pesar, debo reconocer como el fin del mundo. S贸lo los hielos eternos m谩s all谩 de esa tierra. All铆 nac铆. Mapuches o espa帽oles, fluidas, impredecibles, vigorosas, all铆 est谩n mis ra铆ces.”
― Lo que est谩 en mi coraz贸n
Toda mi vida ha corrido por este lado del mundo. Mi cuna real y ficticia, el lugar donde nac铆 y el otro que fui adquiriendo, lucen oropeles muy americanos ( 隆 no acepto que ese adjetivo se lo atribuyan los del norte! Am茅rica 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 se帽alar los m铆os y agrego un tercero, 茅ste. Dos de ellos resultan razonablemente cercanos, y luego, inevitable, la l铆nea larga baja y baja hasta llegar al sur, hasta lo que, a mi pesar, debo reconocer como el fin del mundo. S贸lo los hielos eternos m谩s all谩 de esa tierra. All铆 nac铆. Mapuches o espa帽oles, fluidas, impredecibles, vigorosas, all铆 est谩n mis ra铆ces.”
― Lo que est谩 en mi coraz贸n

“To have deep roots in a place means having dead buried there. It is almost that literal, the dead forming your bond to the earth and to the others whose dead lie buried there. I always had that bond whether I knew it or not.”
― The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning
― The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning

“The gap that was created during those transatlantic voyages hundreds of years ago.
That gap is the matrix of Saudade 鈥 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.”
― A Parallel Life
That gap is the matrix of Saudade 鈥 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.”
― A Parallel Life

“Beautiful feelings soar freely, while true care roots deeply. Real love can only be
defined by them both.”
― Yours, poetically: Special Deluxe Edition of Selected Poems and Quotes
defined by them both.”
― Yours, poetically: Special Deluxe Edition of Selected Poems and Quotes

“Mpelelezi wa Tume ya Dunia kutoka Israeli Daniel Yehuda Ben-Asher Ebenezer, Mhebrania aliyeishi Givat Ram, Jerusalem, na mke wake mrembo Hadara na mtoto wake mzuri Navah Ebenezer, alikuwa Ukanda wa Gaza siku alipopigiwa simu na Kiongozi wa Kanda ya Asia-Australia ya Tume ya Dunia U Nanda 鈥 kutoka Copenhagen kuhusiana na wito wa haraka wa kuonana na Rais wa Tume ya Dunia. Yehuda aliondoka usiku kwenda Yangon, Myama, ambapo alionana na U Nanda na kupewa maelekezo yote ya kikazi aliyotakiwa kuyafuata. Mbali na maelekezo yote ya kikazi aliyotakiwa kuyafuata, Nanda alimkabidhi Yehuda kachero wa Kolonia Santita Mandi Dickson Santana (bila kujua kama Mandi ni kachero wa Kolonia Santita) ili amsindikize mpaka stendi ya mabasi ya Maubin, nje ya Yangon. Baada ya hapo Yehuda alisafiri mpaka Copenhagen ambapo yeye na wenzake walikabidhiwa Operation Devil Cross, ya kung鈥檕a mizizi ya Kolonia Santita duniani kote. Yehuda alifanya kosa kubwa kuonana na kachero wa Kolonia Santita Mandi Santana! Kwa sababu hiyo, sauti na picha ya Yehuda vilichukuliwa, watu wengi walikufa katika miji ya Copenhagen na Mexico City.”
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“Roots cannot grow into trees if there are no supernatural elements in the soil. Man cannot grow wealthy and famous if he doesn't contribute to either, the good or evil.”
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“Finally, we entered Chetaube County, my imaginary birthplace, where the names of the little winding roads and minuscule mountain communities never failed to inspire me: Yardscrabble, Big Log, Upper, Middle and Lower Pigsty, Chicken Scratch, Cooterville, Felchville, Dust Rag, Dough Bag, Uranus Ridge, Big Bottom, Hooter Holler, Quickskillet, Buck Wallow, Possum Strut ... We always say a picture speaks a thousand words, but isn鈥檛 the opposite equally true?”
― Beginner's Luke
― Beginner's Luke
“The forces of desire that sway man's mind are the forces that will eventually destroy him, while a singular love that roots his heart makes him invincible”
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“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.”
― The Atom Station
― The Atom Station
“I feel weird spilling it now but have to. Because after a while, it took root, the way shared stories do when you live with them long enough. They affect your DNA like radiation. They give birth to you.”
― Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger
― Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger
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