Roots Quotes · Page 31

When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.

— Pat Robertson

If there is no fruit in sanctification, there is no root in regeneration.

— Steven J Lawson

I'm delighted to be returning to my California roots and joining Google.

— Ruth Porat

Marriage is honourable, as you say; and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root?

— William Congreve

Always be true to yourself, what you believe, and where you came from...you'll need those roots sooner or later.

— Anonymous

After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.

— Andy Andrews

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

— Sara Gruen

I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll.

— Hozier

Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how…

— Robert Fulghum

I come from a time when every kid dressed up. Everybody. If you didn't, you wouldn't be able to hang out. It…

— Paul Weller

I moved to Europe and was able to take time and really explore who I was and who I wanted to be.…

— Mischa Barton

Honestly I think that the internet is one of the most amazing promotional tools out there. And I think it promotes music…

— Tristan Prettyman

When these suckers had formed roots in the open ground, or kind of nursery where they were planted, they were looked over…

— Robert Fortune

Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then…

— Jimmy Buffett

Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean,…

— Valerie June

Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the…

— Lynne Truss

The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have…

— Ted Cruz

There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth…

— Gabrielle Zevin

When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was…

— Vandana Shiva

...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as…

— Thomas Jefferson

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting…

— Emily Giffin

Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp…

— Bill Mollison

I grew up on the lake and spent most of that time outdoors. As a musician, I travel widely around the country…

— Gord Downie

In a really equal democracy, every or any section would be represented, not disproportionately, but proportionately. ... Unless they are, there is…

— John Stuart Mill

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for…

— Robert Farrar Capon

I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the…

— Gottlob Frege

I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pillow.

— Francisco X. Alarcon

Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy.

— Robert Townsend

It's really important to me to stick to my roots by doing what's West Coast: wearing T-shirts and shorts.

— Kenny Stills

We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the…

— Nikola Tesla

I didn't truly understand the depth of my roots until I was old enough to wonder and care.

— Aeriel Miranda

If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.

— Bryant H. McGill

I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is…

— Edward Abbey

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

— Rajneesh

marriages do not take root in the presence of witnesses but only in the consciousness of the persons involved.

— Libbie Block

Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.

— Simone Weil

“A tree stands strong not by its fruits or branches, but by the depth of its roots.”

— Anthony Liccione

He who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil.

— Ovid

Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.

— John Green