A cliché has developed about giving your children roots and wings.

The Sound shaped our existence, formed our characters, gave us roots.

It gives her tree square roots, and they don't work well, so the tree suffers.

Ms. Arnardottir said there's something about Iceland that gives people strong roots.

Here, too, they can discover the close ties between man and nature that give strong roots to Ms. Hoffman's better, less fussy work.

His own career has given him roots in the two sides of Mexican capitalism.

But last year he moved his family back to Utah, to give his children "roots" and as a way to see them more often.

It could be kept only by giving my entire self, roots and all.

They will not give newly transplanted roots the jolt that inspired the "no fertilizer" rule.