Roots

Famous quotes containing the word roots:

    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)

    April is the cruellest month, breeding
    Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
    Memory and desire, stirring
    Dull roots with spring rain.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
    Out of this stony rubbish?
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)