Uprooted Quotations

I don't believe I could live in Iran again. A tree, once uprooted from the earth, is very difficult to plant again.

Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

We also worked on the church property taming a forest of uprooted trees. Huge trees -- 20 feet tall -- had been snapped off and just the trunks were sitting there. We went in with a Bobcat and chain saws to clear up the church's wooded property.

We have approximately 600 to 700 trees uprooted and down,

Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again.

Like so many businesses and families uprooted by Hurricane Katrina, the Hornets were forced to leave New Orleans while the city recovers from this tragedy,

The trees are many times larger and they were uprooted and toppled, blocking off roads. The girth, if you will, of some of these trees is very significant.

So what this is is a 'road novel.' Eventually entire civilization (in the South) had been uprooted and people found security only in movement, ... That interested me enormously ... A friend from New Orleans, he said when he read the book, 'This is like Hurricane Katrina.'

The Cajuns uprooted from Canada and moved as a group to Louisiana. Vietnamese communities have reassembled after moving much farther. There is precedent for doing this,

A whole community has been uprooted and huge parts of it destroyed. Add on top of that the disproportionate impact on the African-American population. So there is a tremendous amount of emotion about the issue.

That second floor was a wonderful adventure. It was cozy. But at the same time we had this feeling of being uprooted ? and also of being cold and of having to come back down to the real world." ()

The culture of corruption in Kenya runs very deep and only such a commission can undertake to address it fully and ensure it is uprooted from our midst.