Home Quote by Katharine Hepburn

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

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Christopher L. Bennett

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

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Nelou Keramati

“People like where their roots are, especially when they are away from them.”

— Augusto Branco

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

— Stan Goff

“I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pilllow.”

— Francisco X. Alarcón

“If we were meant to stay in one place, we would have roots instead of feet.”

— Rachel Wolchin

“The branches dropped shaggy creepers that, when they reached the earth, hardened into roots and pried apart paving.”

— China Miéville

“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

That's the great thing that happened with 'Roots.' It opened up the dialogue.

— Leslie Uggams

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

— Jack Kerouac