Quotes About Rootedness

#1. Philly is a state of mind I'm always in. The city is truly a character in its own right, and it's served me well because the people I was exposed to gave me that cultural rootedness.

M. K. Asante

#2. Without this original, pre-political, and pre-social community, no common project could ever come to exist. For, no project of this kind can be formed independently from its rootedness in the organic structure of desire and action.

Michel Henry

#3. Our present stress on growth and productivity is, I believe, intimately related to the decline in rootedness. Faced with loneliness and vulnerability that come with deprivation of a securely encompassing community, we have sought to quell the vulnerability through our possessions.

Paul L Wachtel

#4. A baby nursing at a mother's breast ... is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature.

David Suzuki

#5. The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse.

Terry Tempest Williams

#6. Everyone should feel comfortable they are going to remain in their homes until their dying days. We should never be uneasy or unsure of where our home is in the United States of America.

Tit Elingtin

#7. We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes in strange ways sex crimes, black masses.

Terence Fisher

#8. Happy is the woman who has a man that shares the little things in life with her.

Jean Williams

#9. If you want to ask one question, ask yourself, what are you giving to the universe and only that will be returned.

Amit Ray

#10. If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.

Donald Rumsfeld

#11. My dad owned a tiny little shop and we never had any family holidays or anything like that, so I was sent to boarding school as a means of control more than anything I think.

Thighpaulsandra

#12. This unhoused, exiled Satan was perhaps the heavenly patron of all exiles, all unhoused people, all those who were torn from their place and left floating, half-this, half-that, denied the rooted person's comforting, defining sense of having solid ground beneath their feet.

Salman Rushdie

#13. Entrepreneurs often underestimate costs and overestimate rewards. But the fact that they estimate & still take action sets them apart from peers.

Ryan Lilly

#14. More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#15. Root yourself in this earth
and it will root itself in you.

Sheniz Janmohamed

#16. It was on the to-do list, but you know to-do lists. They get longer and longer until you might as well just carve the last items on your tombstone. Do the dishes.

Catherynne M Valente