Quotes About Family Tree Roots

#1. I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree.

John Burroughs

#2. I think today's music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.

Frankie Avalon

#3. You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to ... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

Henry Louis Gates

#4. Being an American is a state of mind, and to be in a family is to feel the power of belonging, the power of your roots. Family is a tree, the strength of a tree, the roots, the leaves, the past and the present, the future, the fruits, the seeds.

Esai Morales

#5. All my hard work in overhearing it was it was about as rewarding to me as a man who lugs a chest up the hill only to learn that its full of rocks.

Arthur Golden

#6. The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

#7. We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.

Joni Mitchell

#8. The greater part of our best years has been passed for our generation in these two great worldconvulsions. All will be changed after this war, which spends in one month more than nations earned before in yearsthere is no more security in our time than in those of the Reformation or the fall of Rome.

Stefan Zweig

#9. Sorrow eats time. Be patient. Time eats sorrow.

Louise Erdrich

#10. From a family tree that has healthy roots, there emerge hearty leaves and most beautiful fruits.

Wes Fesler

#11. Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.' (Talon)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. The affair between Margot Asquinth and Margot Asquinth will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

Dorothy Parker

#13. "World War III, was the Cold War, and the U.S. won it".

Norman Podhoretz

#14. I think 'The Thing' is so good because it's not just a scary movie. It's also social commentary, which works on multiple levels, which is something I really respond to.

Drew Goddard

#15. What must that be like? To be admired before you've even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you're like?

David Nicholls

#16. Love did not die. I still create your image to my heart every solitary night.

Chrissy Moon

#17. Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

James Baldwin