Quotes About Rootlessness

#1. The corrupt man is nearly always rootless, deeply aware of his rootlessness.

Robert Payne

#2. Under the most diverse conditions and disparate circumstances, we watch the development of the same phenomena - homelessness on an unprecedented scale, rootlessness to an unprecedented depth.

Hannah Arendt

#3. Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

John Carroll

#4. Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world appears intent on blanking you out.

Mariella Frostrup

#5. He was thinking of that time, the way one does on long journeys when rootlessness and boredom, lack of sleep or routine can summon from out of nowhere random stretches of the past, make them as real as a haunting.
Solar

Ian McEwan

#6. Rootlessness," I opine, "is the twenty-first century norm."
"You're not wrong and that's why we're in the shit we're in, mate. If you belong nowhere, why give a tinker's toss about anywhere?

David Mitchell

#7. My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.

Cornel West

#8. It was the rootlessness that went with being the son of an RAF officer that shaped me. I had been to 11 schools by the time I was 9.

Jonathan Powell

#9. Sadness is a feeling of loss. There is something one wanted, and one doesn't have it - or there is a way one wanted things to be, and things aren't that way. That is sadness. Instead, you feel rootlessness.

Jesse Ball

#10. It's curious that throughout our history together, with no apparent effort, people have been able to think of the cat simultaneously as the guardian spirit of the hearth and home, and as the emblem of freedom, independence, and rootlessness.

Barbara Holland

#11. The team came together. We're looking forward to the next race.

John Surtees

#12. All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert: Mohammed, Jesus and myself.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#13. No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war.

John Haynes Holmes

#14. Modern life is a centrifuge; it throws people in every direction.

Paul Murray

#15. It's a wise thing to hold back.

Julian Clary

#16. This rootless shifting east and west
I can't suppress a smile myself
but how else can I make
the whole world my home.
If any of my old friends
come around asking
say I'm down at the river
by the Second Fushimi Bridge.

Baisao

#17. Stone checked his watch. Tempus fugit. "Gotta

Robert Crais

#18. Although God certainly knows all our needs, praying for them changes our attitude from complaint to praise and enables us to participate in God's personal plan for our lives.

Ray Stedman

#19. Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked ...

Mikhail Bulgakov

#20. The truth of the matter is, every film is imperfect. It's the nature of the beast. One of the things that people ask me all the time is, what's the difference between theater and film, and one of the biggest differences is, in the theater you always get another go.

Stephen Daldry

#21. There's so much about girls I don't understand. I don't know how I'm old enough to kiss them but not old enough to talk to them.

Hannah Moskowitz

#22. The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.

Bill Frist

#23. The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

Louis Simpson