Uprooted Quotes

41 Uprooted quotes by 38 unique authors

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend. — Wallace Stegner
What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from… — Radclyffe Hall
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous… — Khaled Hosseini
Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in… — D. H. Lawrence
As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned. — Robert Graves
The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and… — Zora Neale Hurston
In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The… — William Dalrymple
Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind.… — Stephen King
This hill crossed with broken pines and maples lumpy with the burial mounds of uprooted hemlocks (hurricane of '38) out of their rotting hearts generations… — Grace Paley
Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument. — Emile Durkheim
Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from… — Iain McGilchrist
The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. — Gloria Steinem
We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a… — Moshe Dayan
There have been polluted and perverted as we live - how to change not only / but also the roots of the factors which cause… — Mak_786
Every plant which my heavenly father has not planted with be uprooted — Jesus Christ

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