put down roots

Never long enough to put down roots, make it any kind of home.

One more small effort, then he would put down roots.

You have to be born in a place to put down roots.

Others will want to put down roots and take care of family members who helped them along the way.

He certainly could identify with the need to put down roots.

Adam wanted to put down roots and start a family, so he took his time.

It is where my children are growing up and putting down roots.

They need not to trace but to put down roots.

Plants, obviously, cannot move after they have put down roots.

And his children have put down roots beyond a mortgage.

Along the way, they became a community lacking only land to put down roots.

For all her strong talk, she was a woman who would put down roots and sink them deep.

But he and his wife, Kathryn, decided to put down roots after looking into the schools.

That he was a man who hadn't put down roots?

Except he wasn't the kind of man who put down roots.

In the other lands, somehow I could not put down roots.

I was remembering what he had said about his search for a place to put down roots.

When people started to put down roots on the island is still an open question."

I felt like an observer during those years, reluctant to put down roots.

"If you sit in that chair much longer, you're going to put down roots."

It was another instance of putting down roots where there had been none before.

This was a long stretch of land where no one intended to put down roots.

But time was too short to put down roots.

Ultimately, only those who are full stakeholders in America will put down roots here.

"I'm trying to put down roots in this area," he said.