Ancestors Quote by Ruth Behar

“How many of us appreciate the joys of a simple tortilla?”

— Jonathan Franklin

“Now it's your land. But it's important, at least to me,that you remember that it's not just your land. There is a history. Now…

— Robert Goolrick

“My mother did not want to go to America: this much I knew. I knew it by the way she became distracted and impatient…

— Catherine Chung

“So that I might face my past, I dug these words from the richest southern soil and held them in my hands like seeds…

— Brenda Sutton Rose

“I scuff the toe of my boot through the dirt, uncovering pine needles and half-rotted leaves shed by the cottonwood looming over me. My…

— Rae Carson

“My grandparents... planted their land up with trees, both those native... and exotics which stood in memory of the countries where they had lived.”

— Robert Macfarlane

“Everyone loves something, even if it's only tortillas.”

— Chogyam Trungpa

“Alas, poor country, almost afraid to know itself! It cannot be called our mother, but our grave.”

— William Shakespeare

“my ancestors didn't fight there way to the top of the food chain to look down and see me eating leaves”

— Leslie Connor

“More than anything, this place feels familiar. I bury my hands in the hot sand and think about the embodiment of memory or, more…

— Raquel Cepeda

“My roots are firmly planted in the glory of nature. The soil beneath my feet heartens each step.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“Here in my homeland, I am always barefoot.”

— Bianca Marais