A Quote by Jonas Salk

Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

Jonas Salk

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Jonas Salk
American - Scientist
October 28, 1914 - June 23, 1995

There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Deborah Norville

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

Dalai Lama

My favourite poem is called 'Roots and Wings' - it's a very moving poem about how if you've got real roots you can fly.

David Miliband

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Zorba is beautiful, but something is missing. The earth is his, but the heaven is missing. He is earthly, rooted, like a giant cedar, but he has no wings. He cannot fly into the sky. He has roots but no wings.

Rajneesh

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Denis Waitley

kindnesses have wings and roots ... wings that never droop, and roots that never die.

Mary Louisa Molesworth

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Too often, the Democratic Party has been split between its grass-roots activists on one side and its elected officials and party leaders on the other. It's important to remember: We need both wings to fly.

Jim Hunt

A good parent gives their child roots and wings.

Jonas Salk

I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

If Heaven is up, I'm going. I know I'm right in my heart. This world is not my home. This life will soon be gone, and, one day, I'll spread my wings, as an angel, and fly away.

Aaron Dontez Yates

All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . . bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Temple mirrors of eternity remind us that each human being has "divine nature and destiny"; that "sacred ordinances and covenants available in holy temples make it possible for individuals to return to the presence of God and for families to be united eternally"; and that, growing together in love and faithfulness, we can give children roots and wings.

Gerrit W. Gong

The human race is like a bird and it needs both wings to be able to fly. And, at the moment, one of is wings is clipped an we're never going to be able to fly as high.

Emma Watson

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