Put Down Roots Quotes

#1. 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

#2. When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them through the tough times.

Lee Greenwood

#3. My interest in writing about American history stemmed originally, I think, from a subconscious desire to find roots - I felt like a girl without a country. I have put down roots quite firmly by now, but in the process, I have discovered the joys of research and am probably hooked.

Jean Fritz

#4. I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social, political and emotional commitments to a place, I have to find another place.

Bharati Mukherjee

#5. And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood.

Emma Donoghue

#6. If there would not have been a Waco, I would have put down roots somewhere and not been so unsettled with the fact that my government ... was a threat to me. Everything that Waco implies was on the forefront of my thoughts. That sort of guided my path for the next couple of years.

Timothy McVeigh

#7. You feel that nothing you have learned has put down roots, that while you're capable of entering the magical universe, you cannot remain submerged in it. You feel that all of this may be nothing but a fantasy dreamed up by people to fend off their fear of death.

Paulo Coelho

#8. The root of all human misfortune and suffering was that red European specter that the lion-headed man with the tobacco pipe had boasted had put down roots in this land, the seed of that red mushroom!

Bandi

#9. We don't want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism.

John R. Allen

#10. As the story grew, it put down roots into the past and threw out unexpected branches .

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.

C. G. Jung

#12. We'll exchange rings, we'll throw rice. We'll put down roots.'
We don't have roots. We're network people. We have aerials.

Bruce Sterling

#13. I supported this bill. I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived here even though sometime back they may have entered illegally.

Ronald Reagan

#14. Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

Juliette Binoche

#15. I often noticed that the surrounding mountains inspired Hitler. He once joked that here he stood 'above the world' in an environment comparable to Olympius, legendary mount of the gods, but that alone can never have been the motivation for himto put down his private roots on Obersalzberg.

Heinz Linge

#16. But plants grow again," She murmured, focusing on the verdant beauty around her. "They put down new roots, create room for themselves in foreign soil.

Nalini Singh

#17. The roots of love sink down and deep and strike out far, and they are arteries that feed our lives, so we must see that they get the water and sun they need so they can nourish us. And when you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you.

Merle Shain

#18. Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.

Vincent De Paul

#19. The seeds sown in childhood put down deep roots. At

Stephen King

#20. The best, most lasting changes are those which come about gradually; to reach great heights, a tree must first put down extensive roots.

Aprilynne Pike

#21. When you stop blooming where you've been planted, it's time to put down new roots.

Mandy Hale