Home Quote by Salman Rushdie Download Open image ““Roots, I sometimes think, are a conservative myth, designed to keep us in our places.”” — Salman Rushdie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Home
“People like where their roots are, especially when they are away from them.” — Augusto Branco Copy Share Image
“those roots were made for walking. And that’s not all they do.” — Christopher L. Bennett Copy Share Image
“My roots are firmly planted in the glory of nature. The soil beneath my feet heartens each step.” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
“A person is from wherever they feel best, and roots are for plants. Everyone knows that, don't they?” — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
“to feel our roots are connected, even if I never see that leaf of grass again.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“We combine our strength from the roots of our origin.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
“I think we are all about to become rootless. It may be time. The soil has become poisonous.” — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
“...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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It’s precisely when you have lost your roots that everywhere you go matters hugely.” — Kapka Kassabova Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my… — Jane Powell Copy Share Image
“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image