Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or roots:
“You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead cant answer slurs, but Im here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesnt.”
—Anita Brookner (b. 1938)
“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”
—Denis Waitly. Quoted in The Winning Family, ch. 25, by Louise Hart (1987)