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
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- My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood. – Gerald Durrell
- 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
- If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. – John F Kennedy
- A tree’s beauty lies in its branches, but its strength lies in its roots. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- …the world was trying to change its old face and show its underbelly of earth and roots. – Italo Calvino
- 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
- When you are a child at home alone, you’re afraid someone might come; when you are old and at home alone, you’re afraid no one will come. – Ljupka Cvetanova
- There is always the exceptional child, but the average tells us that the child is largely what the home has made him. – Billy Graham
- Its the map of my childhood, my sadness, my Eden, my hell and home. when I look at it now, my heart swells with gratitude, then shrinks with disgust. – Otessa Moshfegh
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- Don’t put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child. – Carolyn Byers Ruch
- There’s a fine line between child-like -“ learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff -“ and being child-ish. – Robin Hoyle
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- Actually, Jake said, isn’t life what we make it, wherever we are, whenever we may be – wherever it is that we are? – Heather Graham
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- Wherever you are, wherever you go, be sure to spread the light. – AD Posey
- Go wherever the narrow way passes. If possible, go wherever there seems to be no way and create a way. – Israelmore Ayivor
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- Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away. – Lauren Bacall
- Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away. – Lauren Bacall