roots

Root yourself in this earthand it will root itself in you.

All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not wither,Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

. . . when my family headed out west, like any birth canal Rochester was forgotten.

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.Deborah Norville

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.

I'm planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots.

Beautiful feelings soar freely, while true care roots deeply. Real love can only bedefined by them both.

Beware of your gifts; they may appear as tiny as seeds but at the end, they__l gain roots to bear fruits to feed the world if only you will desire to water them regularly!

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

Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.

Once you decide to grow out the roses from your heart, and let it spread the roots all over. you should also start to learn to handle the thorns that grow out of their stem.

Do the roots reveal everything to the branches, or do they keep what is painful to themselves?

It hurts, doesn't it? Giving someone everything you can think of. The wings to fly and roots to stay and yet watch them choose none of those, leaving you hanging in the middle of void and nothingness.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.Their language has been lost.But not the gestures.

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it__ not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don__ want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots.

Digging through my roots to understand the way my branches grew.