Unrooted Quotes

#1. Engineering is the art or science of making practical.

Samuel Florman

#2. No one ever escapes Gloucester. Kids go off to college and settle somewhere else. But they always come back. If Gloucester is all you know, every place else seems a little phony.

Mark Kurlansky

#3. Manhattan is a small town. It has to be. Only half a dozen places in Kansas are anything else.

Raymond Chandler

#4. She collapsed. I stepped forward and caught her. I thought of two trees nearly unrooted and leaning against each other.

Peter Heller

#5. Oh my God. Sky." Dylan stared at me, incredulous. "What?" I clutched at my dress, certain there was a big-ass rip in back or something. I pushed against her arm. "What?" "You just said love." "No, I didn't," I said quickly.

Heather Demetrios

#6. The voices must be heard! Action must be taken! When? Right now!

Euginia Herlihy

#7. Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.

Laozi

#8. The more you are at sea,' Sigrud explains, 'the more you learn. And the more you learn, the more help and assistance is a troublesome bother. Dealing death, after all, is a solitary affair.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#9. Turning complex, diverse places into shallow, simple ones creates a more culturally vulnerable population, an unrooted mass whose only linking thread lies in the ideology that is fed to them from above.

Alastair Bonnett

#10. Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.

Chip Heath

#11. Whenever I hear the word "share" I would reach for a gun if I had one. "Share" is frequently followed by the word "feelings", and I have enough of my own thank you; please do us both a favor and repress yours.

Stewart Brand