"Sometimes you have to choose between planting roots and growing wings” is a motivational saying that has been printed on many images. “Should I stay or should I go?” is a similar expression.
“Sometimes you have to choose between planting roots or growing wings” was posted on Twitter by Rachel Wolchin on December 5, 2012. The saying probably comes from an image.
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Rachel Wolchin
@RachelWolchin
Sometimes you have to choose between planting roots or growing wings.
6:41 PM - 5 Dec 2012
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Sometimes you have to choose between planting roots or growing wings.
12:22 AM - 6 Dec 2012
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@Ammo23Amreen
Sometimes you have to choose between planting roots or growing wings.”
2:14 AM - 9 Dec 2012
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Rachel Wolchin
@RachelWolchin
Sometimes you have to choose between planting roots or growing wings.
5:21 PM - 23 Apr 2017
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Sometimes you have to choose between planting roots or growing wings!
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Madison Lawson
@madisonmlawson
sometimes you have to choose between planting roots or growing wings
1:34 PM - 13 Aug 2018
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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