Roots Quotes

“It is strange how people seem to belong to places - especially to places where they were not born...”
― Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin

“It is only when we are fully rooted that we are really able to move.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“My heart has known so many homes
So many cherished spaces
In cities, forests, country towns,
So many different places I’ve loved.

And now,
Weary from multiple moves and moods,
Changes—thoroughly pondered   
or care-lessly tossed,
Bearings precarious from selling, buying, fixing, selling—Powers used, exhausted, but not laid waste—Invested, projected,
Expectations refined and re-defined.

So many times over done
(and yes, bodies buried in backyards
and swimming under lake-still waters)
And yet none of them
—none of the places, the ghosts—
are really gone.
You see:

My heart has known so many homes
So many cherished spaces
In cities, forests, country towns
So many different places I’ve been
And loved
And shared
And left behind
Here in me—rooted deeply true.
Soul, spirit, body, heart, and mind
I carry my homes in me—
You carry your home with you.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Hurdles will come...
It may stop you...
But keep walking..

Until you reach there...
where you always want to go.”
― Bhawna Dehariya

“To fly high, stay connected to the roots, like a kite.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Modified Leadership

“We are the Roots of the tree on which you flourish. Go on rejoicing in your beauty! But remember there is this difference between us that with every autumn the old Leaves die, and with every spring new Leaves are born; but if the Roots once perish neither you nor the tree can live at all.”
― Ivan Krylov

“There is a poet in all of us. Once we experience love and pain, the thought of expressing our feelings sprouts from within us as the leaves and roots do from a seed.”
― Avijeet Das

“I want you in my arms like roots consume rain. To warm my body beside yours like bathing in the sun. To hear the rhythm of your heart in my waking ears. Dancing in spirit around the edges of your body. Wanting your love that burns like fire when you kiss me––anywhere and everywhere. You loving every part of me––loving every part of you.”
― Luca Evola, Arabala

“Cathy believed that the more she and Edie thirsted, the deeper their roots would snare inside each other. They would find inside each other's bodies all the water they wanted.”
― K-Ming Chang, Bone House

“How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standing very still in the porch, or in the garden, in my bare feet, feeling suddenly: that sound, that rushing, it is the wind, it is the trees!”
― Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

“The higher up in a tree you go, the farther away you are from your roots.”
― Nicola Yoon, One of Our Kind

“It’s instinctive to want to be buried on the land you come from. It has energetic importance. Aboriginal people got their spiritual bearings by knowing their ancestors were in certain places. It is an energetic navigational system. We would do the same, if we are sufficiently connected to the land and our body. Anyone aware that from soil they come and to soil they will return remains deeply connected to their roots.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“People like where their roots are,
especially when they are away from them.”
― Augusto Branco

“Rule of roots, to solve a big problem; up-root the root cause, pouring the solution at the grass root.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Modified Leadership

“I had thought it childish to cling to my past, but my naivete had been thinking you needed to move on from losing the people you loved and who had loved you. Those people formed you as a person- you didn't grow past them, you built up from the foundations they'd given you.”
― Melanie Cellier, The Golden Princess

“The wings of time may carry us on diverse journeys, but the common roots we share will always guide us back to the same ground.”
― Shree Shambav, Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories - Series II

“The story entangled itself in the substance of his heart, like the roots of a cedar of Lebanon in the heart of the earth. He wondered if he would ever pry it loose.”
― Brock Meier, The Stone Cutter: A novel of Petra In Ancient Arabia

“Life is not shallow. We have to dig deep to live.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Safa Tempo: Poems New & Selected

“Death is recycling. Proteins and nutrients, ’round and ’round. And you can’t stop that. Take a living person off Earth, put them in a sealed metal canister out in a vacuum, take them so far away from their planet of origin that they might not understand what a forest or an ocean is when you tell them about one – and they are still linked to that cycle. When we decompose under the right conditions, we turn into soil – something awfully like it, anyway. You see? We’re not detached from Earth. We turn into earth.”
― Becky Chambers, Record of a Spaceborn Few

“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Human cities in particular, each one more or less according to its degree of perfection, surround the life of their inhabitants with poetry. They are images and reflections of the city and the world.”
― Simone Weil, Waiting for God. Perennial Classics Series. ISBN: 0060959703 / 0-06-095970-3

“I will be there with Dad soon. So don't think you can get away. There is an animal in me. Don't force me to let it out.”
― Avijeet Das

“From the soil of mistakes, we harvest lessons of wellbeing, watering our roots with the wisdom of experience.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“Like the seed cannot sprout upwards without
simultaneously sending roots into the ground.
I here and now vow to constantly nourish my
definite purpose in life, allowing the
roots of my life to flower above the surface”
― Rhys Blanco, Affirmations for Glowing skin

“The women’s belief that they were fulfilling the path laid out by their grandparents provided a sense of identity, a connection with a larger order and with their roots.”
― Lynn Davidman, Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism

“Roots that run so deep have no trouble piercing stone.”
― S.J. Shank, Mountain Fast: A Gothic Tale of Medieval Horror

“One must have roots to bloom, sprout, grow, and branch out.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“The roots of a negative attitude are no match for the shovel of gratitude.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don't ever be surprised to see a rose shoulder up among the ruins of the house. This is how we survived.”
― Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

“New Year's Eve is the occasion
to take stock of your origin,
so that in the reign of new dawn,
you don't forget where you come from.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood