Writing Quote by Kara Lee Corthron

“I think we are all about to become rootless. It may be time. The soil has become poisonous.”

— Stan Goff

“what good are roots if you can't take them with you”

— Gertrude Stein

“If you cannot wait for time to unearth roots, you must dig.”

— Nelou Keramati

“The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Let's here it for modern dentistry, eh?" I said, and he grimaced. Actually, as much as people dislike going to the dentist now, try…

— Cate Tiernan

“In Venice, Grant let slip a remark that would provide fodder for many satirists: he told a young woman what a fine city it…

— Ron Chernow

“undergoing anaesthetic-free root canal treatment at the hands of a drunk, Parkinson’s Disease-suffering dentist, for instance. Would have been a treat compared with this…

— Tracy Engelbrecht

“History makes my mouth water - and that is as much because of the voids in what documentation remains as what is set in…

— Sara Sheridan

“Roots, I sometimes think, are a conservative myth, designed to keep us in our places.”

— Salman Rushdie

“for what justice is there in this: that a nobleman, a goldsmith, a banker, or any other man, that either does nothing at all,…

— Thomas More

“You’d never care to plant some roots in society, I suppose,” mused the other.”

— Jack Kerouac

It would be exciting to take part in what we now call the Enlightenment at the end of the 18th century, but with modern…

— Ken Loach