Roots Quotes · Page 2

Trees have roots, Jews have legs.

— Isaac Deutscher

I always root for the defense.

— Wellington Mara

“Moss grows without roots.”

— Vanessa Diffenbaugh

You can't run from your roots.

— Stewart O'Nan

Ignorance: the root of all evil.

— Plato

Linux doesn't have IP roots.

— Darl McBride

Pchem is the root of all evil.

— Anonymous

Woman is the root of all evil.

— St. Jerome

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

— Kato Kaelin

Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.

— Helen Keller

Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.

— William Shakespeare

I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

— Carice van Houten

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

— Henry Fielding

“If a person is shallow there's no room for roots.”

— Lainey Reese

Freedom has its roots in religion.

— Dorothy Day

Which of my Jewish roots do I follow?

— Leonard Bernstein

Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival.

— Dalai Lama

My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.

— Suzanne Collins

“...We'll exchange rings, we'll throw rice. We'll put down roots.' We don't have roots. We're network people. We have aerials.”

— Bruce Sterling

Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

— Saint John Chrysostom

Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.

— Rumi

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of…

— Charles de Gaulle

I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

— Salma Hayek

Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write?

— Rainer Maria Rilke

People have the most control over their affairs at the grass-roots level. Anything that can be fairly and efficiently handled at a…

— Peace Pilgrim

My vision is to not only define food and cooking as an art, but to go back to the roots of cooking…

— Lorena Garcia

Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight…

— Ayn Rand

I'm a campaigner for grass roots because I am a product of the grass roots system and I would like every child…

— Robbie Savage

You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have…

— Bob Seger

The concept of evolution postulates that living organisms have common roots, and in turn, the existence of common features is powerful support…

— Hans Adolf Krebs

I like to see people reaching back for the roots and for the reason why. Not intellectually, but just for the gut…

— Van Morrison

I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling…

— Jackson Browne

Fashion is something that brought me closer to my family as I grew up. It's something that was deep inside me, in…

— Hector Bellerin

My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come…

— Douglas Conant

With a normal president like President [Barack] Obama, he says a word, and that's because there has been some thought that he's…

— David Brooks

Her business manager said, you know, Gilda [Radner] left you that house. That's when I decided to stay and test it out.…

— Gene Wilder

Roots' was the first album on which I recorded a berimbau. After that, I recorded it a bunch for Soulfly and other…

— Max Cavalera

In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the…

— Constantin Stanislavski

This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a…

— Jonathan Swift

No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work…

— Rachel Field