Roots Quotes · Page 25

Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. Return to the root and you will find Meaning.

— Sengcan

I really consider myself a Californian, but I have those great comedic roots in Brooklyn.

— Mary Tyler Moore

Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.

— Barbara Tuchman

I can't multiply myself out of a paper bag. But when it comes to roots, I'm your man.

— Jerry Newport

If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do.

— Mark Batterson

I am a fan of today's sound as long as we don't get too slick, and yet I am very reverent of…

— Wynonna Judd

Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is…

— George Orwell

My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.

— William Carlos Williams

Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate -…

— John Harvey Kellogg

I love anything to do with cooking, from watching the Food Network to reading recipe books by Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver and…

— Jourdan Dunn

When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this…

— Lester Bangs

The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a…

— James F. Cooper

I was born out west but later on I migrated to the east side of Chicago. That's where my roots are at.…

— King Louie

Welcome the back talk, because it's completely natural and normal. It's actually a sign that the new idea you've planted in your…

— Gay Hendricks

For me, policy is best when connected to the roots, and roots are best when connected to policy. So I encourage you…

— Simone Campbell

The Premier League benefits from foreigners, and the game's evolved in a way that's beneficial, but you can't lose the roots of…

— Cesar Azpilicueta

The word relationship is beautiful. The original meaning of the root from which the word to relate comes is exactly the same…

— Rajneesh

I give thank for God for my roots in the Word of Faith teachings. It is truly on the shoulders of great…

— Joseph Prince

Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The root of honesty is an honest intention, the distinct and deliberate purpose to be true, to handle facts as they are,…

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Branches grew from his hands, his hair. His thoughts tangled like roots in the ground. He strained upward. Pitch ran like tears…

— Anonymous

In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I think what happened with 9/11 is that people sort of felt that it came from nowhere. Whereas I think now we…

— Tony Blair

At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling.…

— Jeffrey Kluger

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

I don't think I've ever spoken to anyone who's told me that the story of 'Roots' isn't important.

— Malachi Kirby

Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it…

— John Piper

To get the adrenaline pumping between events - or to help me switch off, Jay Z, the Roots and Drake are on…

— Jessica Ennis

I'm sort of a Southerner because those are my roots, but my parents are from Iowa.

— Geneva Carr

Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.

— Richard Foreman

“From the soil of mistakes, we harvest lessons of wellbeing, watering our roots with the wisdom of experience.”

— Dr Prem Jagyasi

Karma is the root cause of success and failure in every aspect of life.

— ZHI GANG SHA

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

— Ernest Becker

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

— Carl Sandburg

Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us.

— David Steindl-Rast

A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.

— Austin O'Malley

It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place…

— Margaret Mead

I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.

— Anonymous

A fan without a team is like a hog without truffles - she has nothing to root for.

— Carol Tavris