Roots Quotes · Page 20

Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

— Robert Burns

It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.

— Diana Gabaldon

Camera-Phones are at the root of the Citizen-Journalism revolution.

— Philippe Kahn

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.

— Anonymous

“UN’s got deep roots in the demonology.”

— William Gibson

As a kid I didn't root for the bad guys.

— Robert De Niro

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

— Randy Jackson

I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his…

— Joe Satriani

My father, who is deeply spiritual and religious, always stressed that my siblings and I remain true to our Indian roots.

— Sunita Williams

Whenever the cloud of ego threatens to engulf me, I remind myself of my roots. It helps keeping my feet on the…

— Faraaz Kazi

So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all…

— John Milton

Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.

— Eugene Ionesco

Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I'm trying to represent myself and stick to my roots, so I absolutely hope MMA crosses over the Venezuela. It's great for…

— Julianna Pena

When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.

— Ruth Simmons

Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay…

— OMI

But a lot of my training can be done in Aston - a lot of the hard work, so to speak. But…

— Elvis Stojko

They [President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton] have said that everybody should root for the success of President-Elect [Donald] Trump, but what…

— George Stephanopoulos

I'm proud of my Ivorian roots and know how much football means to the people over there. The thought of using the…

— Serge Gnabry

We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open,…

— Adam Weishaupt

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I…

— Van Morrison

Not all Republicans are rich, dress in three-piece suits, and have $200 haircuts. I'm somebody who's lived from paycheck to paycheck. I'm…

— Joe Wurzelbacher

I realize the importance of retelling those stories is so that, one, we don't forget what our ancestors had to do so…

— Stephan James

At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography…

— Paul Caponigro

Wonderful songwriting, beautiful production, and deeply rooted in what makes American Roots Music great: Deep Southern Pain. It's the hurt that brings…

— Mary Gauthier

In the Old Testament…God is the owner of the vineyard. Here He is the Keeper, the Farmer, the One who takes care…

— J. Vernon McGee

The more deeply I search for the roots of the global environmental crisis, the more I am convinced that it is an…

— Al Gore

The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through…

— Don Kardong

Getting to know the feel of both emotional energies, fear and courage, will enable you to choose courage more consciously. You don't…

— Judith Orloff

Indeed, beauty is one of mankind's greatest needs; it is the root from which the branches of our peace and the fruits…

— Pope Benedict XVI

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Roots are, I’m learning, as important as wings.”

— Michele T. Huey

We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.

— Brent Scowcroft

The last time I had this much fun was a root-canal operation.

— Larry Ziegler

That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.

— Roy Blount, Jr

The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.

— Paracelsus

Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

— Dan Brown

The truth of your instincts is the root of your foundation.

— Sanford Meisner