Roots To Quotes

#1. I am a strong believer in grass roots communities, but I also believe government resources, when available, should be equally available to all people.

Liane Holliday Willey

#2. It's too bad war gets all the attention; it's too bad the plant is easier to see than the root.

Cameron Conaway

#3. Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

Edward Abbey

#4. When all the time it was that grand tree, taking up half the garden with its roots and not allowing anything else to grow.

Zadie Smith

#5. Resignation is to equate with the hope to give up; a possible renewal process is initiated, which do things clean at its roots.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#6. Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence - which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence.

Rajneesh

#7. But science has given us new eyes that allow us to see down to the deeper roots of the world's structure, and there all we see is order and symmetry of pristine mathematical purity.

Stephen M. Barr

#8. Today we take New England clam chowder as something traditional that makes our roots as American cooking very solid, with a lot of foundation. But the first person who decided to mix potatoes and clams and bacon and cream, in his own way 100 to 200 years ago, was a modernist.

Jose Andres

#9. To get the adrenaline pumping between events - or to help me switch off, Jay Z, the Roots and Drake are on my playlist.

Jessica Ennis

#10. We're still who we are at the roots. I reckon, hopefully, you let it branch out a little bit and you learn. You live and learn, so that's what we've tried to do.

Eddie Montgomery

#11. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#12. To be fearless no matter what happens-that is the root of true happiness. To move forward resolutely regardless of what lies in store-that is the spirit, the resolve, that leads to human victory.

Daisaku Ikeda

#13. Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.

William Blake

#14. Spain and southern Italy, in which Catholicism has most deeply implanted its roots, are even now, probably beyond all other countries in Europe, those in which inhumanity to animals is most wanton and unrebuked.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

#15. The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized ...

Gore Vidal

#16. 'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Mason Cooley

#17. I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New Englanders, and so, in my writing, I've been drawn back there to the landscape and the light and the type of personality that's revealed.

Elizabeth Strout

#18. Our life depends on others so much that at the root of our existence is a fundamental need for love. That is why it is good to cultivate an authentic sense of responsibility and concern for the welfare of others.

Dalai Lama

#19. I've been chastised for going into mixed martial arts and backing out. But the reason I backed out was the terms - they wanted me ready to fight in four weeks, but you've got to be out of your mind. So I decided to go back to my roots, back to wrestling.

Kurt Angle

#20. Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that undermine our best attempts at organizing ourselves into social units.

Paul Di Filippo

#21. I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy ... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times.

John Amos

#22. But if you trace even the biggest of these conflicts down to its roots, what you find are entrenched biases, and these sort-of calcified failures of empathy.

Anonymous

#23. Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

John Adams

#24. To my grandmothers,
for tilling the soil in which we grew and for watering our roots with stories of all the old things

Lisa Wingate

#25. Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#26. The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree.

Isaac Newton

#27. I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.

Robert Bly

#28. For me, policy is best when connected to the roots, and roots are best when connected to policy. So I encourage you all to stay connected ... and walk with real people while doing the activism. Lord knows we need folks who are engaged.

Simone Campbell

#29. Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.

William Hazlitt

#30. At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.

Flo Rida

#31. Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others; and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart.

Blaise Pascal

#32. The human story is one of continual branching movement, out of Africa to every corner of the globe. When people talk of blood and soil, as if their ancestors sprung fully formed from the earth of a particular place, it involves a kind of forgetting.
(Hari Kunzru)

Carolina De Robertis

#33. Nor do I try to keep a garden, only
An avocado in a glass of water --
Roots pallid, gemmed with air. And later,

When the small gilt leaves have grown
Fleshy and green, I let them die, yes, yes,
And start another. I am earth's no less.

James Merrill

#34. And believe it or not, a new record from Philly's greatest, the Roots. It's kind of bitter sweet, to be honest. Well, maybe not so bitter. It's called "Rising Down."

Mike Pesca

#35. To minimize hatred and oppression, our love roots must be deep and solid.

Auliq Ice

#36. The roots of India's soft power run deep. India's is a civilization that, over millennia, has offered refuge and, more importantly, religious and cultural freedom, to Jews, Parsis, several varieties of Christians, and Muslims.

Shashi Tharoor

#37. The word 'question' is derived from the Latin quaerere 'to seek,' which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions are useful guides.

Paul A. Kaufman

#38. Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.

Rudolf Virchow

#39. I know I should try harder to make her feel necessary in my life. It totally freaked her when I said I didn't need her anymore. But isn't that the whole point of growing up? A healthy bird can fly the nest? Roots and wings and all that Hallmarky crap?

Kate Klise

#40. As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

Zadie Smith

#41. Congolese rumba was so huge in Africa that everybody was inspired by it. But my African roots brought me this music. In every African family, parties in Brussels, we used to listen to this kind of music. And salsa music as well.

Stromae

#42. My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.

Kate Zambreno

#43. I want to try different things but, most importantly, always be true to my roots and keep it organic. I'm never going to leave bachata behind. I'm always going to be a bachatero first.

Romeo Santos

#44. When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people.

Jennifer Hudson

#45. Poland and my roots are very important for me. That's why I decided to make a feature film in Poland, and with only Polish money.

Malgorzata Szumowska

#46. Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.

Harpo Marx

#47. Kuwait is an origin, and her regulations are branches, so be devoted to the origin, the roots will be insured.

Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

#48. All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community, hard work, perseverance, respect - contribute directly to our success.

Troy Polamalu

#49. It's fashionable with the Sarah Palin set to attack Harvard and treat its graduates as elitists. But if you spend any time on campus, you see students drawn from all over the world - an astonishing number these days with roots in Asia - whose chief assets are brainpower and hard work.

David Ignatius

#50. I used to picture us as two leaves, blowing miles apart in the wind yet bound by the deep tangled roots of the tree from which we had both fallen.

Khaled Hosseini

#51. When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years - now it's called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports.

Dietrich Mateschitz

#52. The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.

Keith Ablow

#53. Whether or not I protect the weeds isn't a matter of just recognizing the weed for what it is, but possessing the conviction to grab hold of the roots and yank like my life depends on it.

Angie Smith

#54. It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy.

Louis L'Amour

#55. There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.

Stephen Carter

#56. Perhaps we have overrated roots as a psychic need. Maybe the greater the urge, the deeper and more ancient is the need, the will, the hunger to be somewhere else.

John Steinbeck

#57. The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.

C.S. Lewis

#58. I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do.

Emmylou Harris

#59. How unhappy are they who have a gift that's left to germinate in darkness. The pale
plant will sink invisible roots and live whitely off their blood.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#60. Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition.

Rick Santorum

#61. There's all sorts of things I was always meaning to get around to - learning to play the flute, calculating the square root of nought, going mad - but I just didn't have the time.

Tom Holt

#62. Good governance is not fire-fighting or crisis-management. Instead of opting for ad-hoc solutions the need of the hour is to tackle the root cause of the problems.

Narendra Modi

#63. I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'

George Thorndike Angell

#64. She repainted the house to resonate year round with a summertime oasis in floral colors from the backyard garden - her ceremonial grounds - keeping her in her roots of greenness.

Jazz Feylynn

#65. For this purpose was I born, let all virtuous people understand. I was born to advance righteousness, to emancipate the good, and to destroy all evil-doers root and branch.

Guru Gobind Singh

#66. I had an old band in Scandinavia, the beginning of Mercyful Fate, so it reminds me of my roots as a teenager. We used to play songs like Grinder and all that. It's really like being a teenager again. (Laughs)

Yenz Leonhardt

#67. 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

#68. The trouble was, all their eyes came to me when I opened the door and Morrie grinned a my-girl's-gonna-get-herself-some grin. Colt looked like he wanted someone to tear his own fingernails out by the roots. And Cal looked like he was having trouble not busting a gut laughing.

Kristen Ashley

#69. There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you.

Rajneesh

#70. I don't really need to appeal to some stockbroker, and I always sort of root for the underdog. I probably consider all that when I'm writing, but it's not in the forefront of my brain.

Eric Bachmann

#71. The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

Alva Myrdal

#72. Do you want to know the real reason I came back, Alix? It was because of you. You're my roots. Wherever you are would be home to me.

Katherine Allred

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

Deborah Norville

#74. There is a conception about me that I am a playback singer and I sing for albums or for films only, but my roots are in bhajans. Even when I was in school, I used to win competitions for ghazals and bhajans.

Sonu Nigam

#75. The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfils its destiny.

Laozi

#76. This type of gathering is unprecedented. The time has come for Christians to publicly affirm our Jewish roots, distinctions and oneness in Jesus Christ.

Bill McCartney

#77. Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#78. I looked at the faces around me and I knew mine was like theirs. Faces with the blood drained away, tight faces, worried, lost. Faces like flowers torn from their roots and stuffed into a pretty vase, the colours draining fast. I had to get away from that town.

John Fante

#79. That we are bound to the earth does not mean that we cannot grow; on the contrary it is the sine qua non of growth. No noble, well-grown tree ever disowned its dark roots, for it grows not only upward but downward as well.

C. G. Jung

#80. It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

Simone Weil

#81. People like to see human error when it's honest. When people see you swing and miss, they start to root for you.

Paul Westerberg

#82. Because Margo knows the secret of leaving, the secret I have only just now learned: leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out y the roots. But you can't do that until your life grown roots.

John Green

#83. The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom.

Thomas A. Edison

#84. The inner woman is the source of healing. The inner woman is the source of silence. The inner woman is the source of love. The inner woman is the source of belongingness with life. Embracing the inner man and woman is to discover our inner roots and wings.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#85. Finn fell asleep draped in Kittens and dreamed that the corn walked the earth on skinny white roots, liked to joke with the crows, and wasn't afraid of anything.

Laura Ruby

#86. I was impressed by a program called New Roots, which helps women refugees from countries in conflict to start new lives in the U.S. by farming. They are trained in a four-year program, at the end of which New Roots helps them find their own land to farm and live on.

Rebecca Pidgeon

#87. The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.

Bertrand Russell

#88. When we as a nation, strive in vain to preserve the beauty of our national life, forgetting our biblical roots, we are doomed.

Richard Halverson

#89. So we took out those 3 root canals when she had 3-6 months to live. And that was 6 years ago, and she is still alive today, and MRI can't find the tumour anymore. It went away.

Hal Huggins

#90. There is usually an 'X factor' that is hard to define. For HTC, I think it is our culture. We embrace the best of our Eastern roots and combine it with the best of the Western cultures where we have leadership and offices. It makes the culture colorful as well as energetic and creative.

Cher Wang

#91. So it does turn out that we do need to begin by contemplating the profound nature of self and other. Because if you change the leaves and branches but leave the roots intact, you run the risk of reverting to type.

Norman Fischer

#92. Be mine that silent calm repast,
A conscience cheerful to the last:
That tree which bears immortal fruit,
Without a canker at the root;
That friend which never fails the just,
When other friends desert their trust.

Nathaniel Cotton

#93. In the frantaic world of today, with everything in a ceaseless uproar like a forest in a hurricane, it's a good thing to see that your roots go a long way down.

Thomas H. Raddall

#94. I settled for a cup of coffee. Only it wasn't coffee. It was a coffee substitute made by grinding up dandelion roots. The idea was that it wouldn't keep you awake, and it's always seemed to me that the only thing coffee really has going for it is that it will keep you awake.

Lawrence Block

#95. I feel weird spilling it now but have to. Because after a while, it took root, the way shared stories do when you live with them long enough. They affect your DNA like radiation. They give birth to you.

Kelly J. Cogswell

#96. Although I was raised in Canada and the U.K., my roots are in Egypt through my father, in a family line that stretches back generations and runs along the Nile, from the concrete of Cairo to the coast of Alexandria.

Shereen El Feki

#97. Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're not going to make anything original by just doing whatever's being rewarded at the moment.

Joan Larkin

#98. Love is not instant. Infatuation is instant. Love is a thing that begins with the most shallow of roots that reach the depths of our souls only after we've given ourselves up to the helplessness of it. And when it's true love, we are truly helpless.

Inglath Cooper

#99. Don't let anyone tell you that Apartheid has nothing to do with South Africa now. Those roots run deep and tangled and we'll be tripping over them for many generations to come.

Lauren Beukes

#100. I never want to abandon my roots. I want to give my past and the history of painting the importance it deserves, including the masters like Rembrandt, who built up the surface of the canvas with transparent layers.

Jose Parla