#roots

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#another #caresses #die #expressions #leaves

I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#i #life #mexican #pride #represent

But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#carefully #dragging #give #homeland #jews

I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in black American music. I love it. ↗

— Glenn Hughes

#american #american music #black #got #i

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#intact #keep #leaves #opinions #principles

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ↗

— Aristotle

#bitter #fruit #roots #sweet

Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#bear #beast #begets #come #constitutes

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots. ↗

— Aretha Franklin

#church #definitely #know #me #natural

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

#africa #alex #back #case #envy

What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College. ↗

— William P. Leahy

#boston #catholic #college #manifestation #roots