“I wake up every day, and I'm a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.”— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, brainyquote.com
“Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“I came from a tough neighborhood. I used to be a 'Dirty Greek,' But my father used to say to me, 'When you grow up and realize what your heritage means, then they'll need a permit to speak to you.' He was right. I'm a proud Greek. I carry my Hellenism like a badge of merit.”— Telly Savalas, m.imdb.com
“My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ..my art gives meaning to my life.”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”— Blaise Pascal, amazon.com
“My mother wanted me to have roots and wings. Roots—a sense of belonging. Wings—the freedom to fly away and experience life on my own terms.”— Nancy Pelosi, amazon.com
“Some speak of search for their roots. But that is a false metaphor. For these strands that we trace backward through time have no root tips. Each ancestral name and date we identify points back toward two more still hidden in the mists, and behind each of these, yet another pair. The mists that hide…”— Herbert A. Simon, amazon.com
“Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.”— John Green, amazon.com
“But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“i am sending my love to your eyes. may they always see goodness in people. and may you always practice kindness. may we see each other as one. may we be nothing short of in love with everything the universe has to offer. and may we always stay grounded. rooted. our feet planted firmly onto the earth…”— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com
“All you will have is the present. Waste no energy crying over yesterday or dreaming of tomorrow. Nostalgia is fatiguing and destructive, it is the vice of the expatriate. You must put down roots as if they were forever, you must have a sense of permanence.”— Isabel Allende, imdb.com