Real Roots

Famous quotes containing the words real and/or roots:

“There is only one real tragedy in a woman’s life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

““Jim,” she said earnestly, “if I was put down there in the middle of the night, I could find my way all over that little town; and along the river to the next town, where my grandmother lived. My feet remember all the little paths through the woods, and where the big roots stick out to trip you. I ain’t never forgot my own country.””
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)