Deep Roots Quotes

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

I remember when I was 5 or 6 years old, gospel music felt familiar, like I had heard it in the womb or something. A lot of those old gospel songs still give me that feeling, that it's older than time and there's actually music that can tap into a universal subconscious, or whatever word you want to put on it.

The more you are called to speak for God's love, the more you will need to deepen the knowledge of that love in your own heart. The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be. Only when your roots are deep can your fruits be abundant.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Power and beauty come from a very deep place.

...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

Don't be a leaf... Be a tree!

What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out

I could write about a pencil if I wanted to. You just take it back deep enough, all the way back to the tree it came from.

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.

Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms.

I'm from Dallas, so I totally get the whole thing. I understand the history and on how big of a scale 'Dallas' was and still is.

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom.

I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. And I had no other ambition than to discover with the help of new means those deep inner ties that linked me to the very soil.

I realised that you can go through times of extreme happiness, but if that happiness is not coming from a deeply rooted place, you will also be going through extreme lows of sadness.

Twentysomethings thank me for their childhood... SpongeBob lives at the bottom of the sea, but he brings a lot of great stuff to the surface.

If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it.

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

When you set out to carry on a tradition as deep rooted as folk music is, you've got to have your story together. You've got to study and have a foundation. Jeffrey Foucault has that foundation, and you can hear it in his voice, and feel it in his music. He's got an understanding that you don't hear that often.

Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly

Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and may even sprout again.

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.