Famous quotes containing the words roots and/or upward:
“If the national security is involved, anything goes. There are no rules. There are people so lacking in roots about what is proper and what is improper that they don’t know there’s anything wrong in breaking into the headquarters of the opposition party.”
—Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900–1980)
“Go thou my incense upward from this hearth,
And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)