Home Quote by Karen Thompson Walker

“...putting down roots doesn't mean you're trapped of stifled or even...ordinary. It just means that you figured out where home is.”

— Nina Lane

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

— Salman Rushdie

“those roots were made for walking. And that’s not all they do.”

— Christopher L. Bennett

“There are no real Californians. There are only people who live there and people who don't.”

— Laura Kalpakian

“Sometimes something comes along and tears your roots right out the ground, and that’s when you know you been planted too long.”

— Sheri Reynolds

“Sometimes life will tear your house apart so you can see the cracks in the foundation.”

— Vanessa Ooms

“At such moments, I felt that we were like the people in California who live in enormous houses on the sides of cliffs, ghat…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“Never try to build a house without first laying a foundation.”

— Gloria Copeland

“A person is from wherever they feel best, and roots are for plants. Everyone knows that, don't they?”

— Juan Gabriel Vásquez

“...when all the time it was that grand tree, taking up half the garden with its roots and not allowing anything else to grow.”

— Zadie Smith

“While I think it’s beautiful seeing a tree pulled out of the ground with all its roots exposed, not all the owners feel the…

— Gigi Garrett

“And you cannot build a home for your worth inside of another being.”

— Victoria Erickson