Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or roots:
“How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers’ names.”
—Alice Walker (b. 1944)
“The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap
Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge
Through living roots awaken in my head.
But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)