Roots Quotes · Page 29

The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

— Gene Simmons

A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.

— J. C. Ryle

There was a lot of aggression in me. It comes from my Bihari roots, I guess.

— Abhimanyu Singh

My roots in electronic music go from weird glitch music to now what's seen as pop music. Electronic music is pop music…

— GRiZ

I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.

— George Shearing

“I am roots in the earth. I am water that flows. I am grounded. I am Watcher.”

— Veronica Wolff

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.

— Aretha Franklin

I went to see that movie 'From Hell,' or as Osama bin Laden calls it - 'Roots.'

— Jay Leno

Even Bollywood films set in rural areas have music with a western touch. So, this has resulted in listeners losing touch with…

— Vidyasagar

If we look at the complexity of the challenges facing western societies today, we see that the problems are not really about…

— Mariana Mazzucato

You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the…

— John Cho

Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history. Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots of…

— Steven Heller

Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good,…

— Taisen Deshimaru

Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization.…

— Esther Meynell

People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage…

— Anna Quindlen

The two lines from 'Roots' that stick out to me are, 'You no more in Africa. You in America now,' and what…

— Louis Gossett, Jr

Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge…

— Mahatma Gandhi

People who spend a great deal of time in their gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. What could be…

— Surya Das

The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow…

— Isabel Allende

How to avoid cliche at the root of conception? Practice sincerity. If we've come by ... material honestly, through our own personal…

— Peter Selgin

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As Americans, we have shown ourselves to have the greatest military on the face of the planet, but we are not so…

— Martin O'Malley

But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe…

— John Green

Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums.…

— Nicolas Bourriaud

I always give one actor an emotion to make it very easy so he or she can root to it.

— Baran Odar

Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God

— John Piper

The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.

— John Oates

The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.

— Emmet Fox

My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them.

— Sylvia Plath

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are…

— Stephen Covey

I love guys who have roots. Paul Pierce has roots embedded in Boston.

— Reggie Miller

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

— William Hazlitt

The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.

— Sophie Swetchine

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.

— Anthony J. D'Angelo

We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry…

— Christina Rossetti

Poetry has roots, and sometimes they are aerial. Sometimes they are buried.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet.

— Marilynne Robinson

I changed my name when we became aware of the African revolution and the whole question of our African roots.

— Amiri Baraka