The base is as strong as the foundation, the tree's trunk as sturdy as the depth it took root. And when we witness this the questions of past introspection could also be: When did certain reinforcements of that foundation get established?And why were there cracks to begin with?...that could take you so far back depending on the person, for that matter, any intelligent life-form, to make you ask:How could I compassionately hold anyone so against what I know I possibly once did myself?

. . . when my family headed out west, like any birth canal Rochester was forgotten.

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.Deborah Norville

The love of money, not money, is root of all evil.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginnings and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree.

Especially at a time when one's life was new, roots helped.

The root system supports the branches.

If the root is holy, the branches shall be holy.

The sap is nourish from the root.

The branches do not support the root. But the root supports the branches.

Man without his maker is like root without a tender shoot.