Good parents…give their children roots and wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what’s been taught them.
– Bettie B Youngs
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- At home, they’d clipped my wings and then caged me so I couldn’t fall. Here, they bandaged one another’s broken wings, helped each other fly. – Holly Cupala
- I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.Deborah Norville – Deborah Norville
- Even if I don’t have wings to fly, I’ll close my eyes and open my heart; then I’ll make love my wings and hope the winds that give me flight. – Imania Margria
- How can you fly? I mean you have wings. Feathers. Did you know you have wings? – Sally Painter
- You can’t fly by staring at the sky. You have to take a risk to grow wings of imagination and fly. – Debasish Mridha
- If I had the wings of a swan, over these stony hills I would fly. I would fly to the arms of my true love, and there I’d be happy to die. – Susan Price
- Show them how to fly and they will shine upon the clear blue skies, show them where to fly and they will fly upon the skies – Filios Sazeides
- Children must be taught obedience just as much as they need to be taught to read and write. – Billy Graham
- Just as trees need roots in the earth, man is also a tree and needs roots in existence or else he will live a very unintelligent life. – Osho
- …We’ll exchange rings, we’ll throw rice. We’ll put down roots.’We don’t have roots. We’re network people. We have aerials. – Bruce Sterling
- Power & Money are fruits of life! But Family &Friends re roots of life! We can manage without fruits, But can never stand without roots. – Daniel Friday Danzor
- A small tree with large roots will last longer than a large tree with small roots. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Suffering has many faces. If we discover the roots of one suffering, we are at the same time discovering the roots of others. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- I shall write peace upon your wings,and you shall fly around the worldso that children will no longer haveto die this way. – Teshima Yusuke
- Children dwell in their dreams. Get them the wings and they’ll fly. – Vikrmn
- I wasn’t made with wings so I could fly away. So here I stand, fighting for a brighter day. That fight begins with me. – D Allen Miller
- You are only free when you can grow wings of wisdom to fly away from the cage of societal conformity. – Debasish Mridha
- I love to talk to flowers. They are sensitive. And sometimes I just want to have couple of wings and fly away… Will you ever notice? – Galina Nelson
- Set me free, let me be me, let me fly, fly high and away, let me breathe freedom… – Nourhan Mamdouh
- The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away. – John Frohnmayer
- You have wings, I have roots. – Jorge Molist
- Like a ????erfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home. – Emme Rollins
- Fly away home to a better place where everything is better, boys are never lost, and mothers don’t ever leave. – Shelly Crane
- The home is always a home and a noble place for shaping hearts! A good home is good for life! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Home isn’t a place. It’s not having a bed to come home to, or a yard, or a Christmas tree at the holidays. Home is the people who love you. – Jennifer Lynn Barnes
- Who you are and what you believe in is your real home, the only home no one can take from you, the only home that will last. – Adam Bagdasarian
- Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all. – Hermann Hesse
- Christianity has so much taken roots among us that drunkards sing gospel songs on their way home – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Your roots aren’t to be found in your childhood so much as in your child. It’s he who provides your link to the world, and home is wherever he is. – Carsten Jensen
- History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths. – Dan Brown
- Nina, you taught me to be something better. They could be taught, too. – Leigh Bardugo
- Everyone thinks that teachers are automatically above the taught The teachers are the taught. – Matthew Donnelly
- Loss taught me. Loss taught me that death comes to both the old and the young. – Nana Awere Damoah
- Nyree taught me not to trust anyone but Steve quickly corrected that lesson and taught me not to trust everyone. – SA Tawks
- [T]hey had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies. – Ursula K Le Guin
- Lies are taught by force, truth is taught by choice. – Homin Hieger
- I was always a killer. It was my skill, and they’d taught me well. She taught me love. – Charles Todd
- You can be taught to write -“ you can’t be taught to be an artist – John Geddes
- Everyone is taught that angels have wings – the lucky ones of us find that they have 4 paws. – Jury Nel
- Do you truly feel that she is worth your wings?-He smiled. -œWhat good are my wings, friend, when I can hold theworld in my arms? – Elizabeth Morgan