“We plant our roots in trembling earth, we live where mountains rose and fell and prehistoric seas burned away in mist. We and the towns we have built are not permanent; the earth itself is a passing train.” EarthSeaMountainBuiltRootsTownsTrainRosePlantPassingPassingsPermanentBurnedMistTremblingPrehistoric Book:Boy's Life Source: Boy's Life
“I still love to go back to Mitchell [his home town] and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of reassures me again that there is a place that I know thoroughly, where the roots are deep. Everything had a place, a specific definition.” KnowsKindStillsHomeStreetsRootsTownsDefinitionsWanderUp And DownHome Town Author:George McGovern
“I had achieved so much success in my career and then had this spectacular fall from grace that left me unemployed and living in a town, Los Angeles, that is built on envy. Once you fall, people don't really root for you to come back again. I'd go to restaurants where I always had the best table and half the time they wouldn't even let me pay. And then when I stopped making movies, the same places wouldn't even give me a lousy table, never mind the best one!” PeopleGivingMindFallLeftPayHalfCareersGraceBuiltRootsLet MeGive MeTownsTablesEnvyRestaurantsLos AngelesSpectacularUnemployedBack AgainFalls From Grace Author:Mickey Rourke
“The White House is dismissing these town hall fireworks as AstroTurf movements which means it`s the opposite of a true grass roots movement.” MeanHouseWhiteMovementRootsOppositesTownsGrassHallsWhite HouseFireworks Author:Chuck Todd
“But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.” WayLooksMeanLongStillsMatterSufferingBreakAliveThousandRootsTownsMetaphorCarefulShipsGrassStringsBe CarefulYou ChooseShortage Book:Paper Towns Source: Paper Towns
“Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.” FeelsImportantRealPureRootsTownsLeavingFeel GoodPulling Book:Paper Towns Source: Paper Towns
“To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.” KnowsMenWayFirstsSpiritNamesQualityBuildingRootsTownsObjectivesWildernessTimelessPreciseCriteria Book:The Timeless Way of Building Source: The Timeless Way of Building
“Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.” LongStillsAliveRootsTownsGrassShortage Book:Paper Towns Source: Paper Towns
“Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.” PeopleKnowsChildrenLittlesCountryStoriesBigsKidsLawSongMinesBrotherHard WorkOughtSingingLaborRootsDiedTownsManagementFruitBrokeOrganizedEnlightenedChild AbuseProtectedOrganizeCoalLungsFuture GenerationRaising ChildrenMillsBenevolentLittle SisterLittle BrotherLawlessnessChild LaborCoughingOrganized LaborDeserve BetterSweatshopsUnderpaidLabor LawsFruit Of Labor Author:Utah Phillips