Roots Quotes · Page 34

To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots…

— Geezer Butler

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others.

— Dalai Lama

Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.

— Jean Paul

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

— Charley Pride

I think any smart businessman would go where the money is bigger, but I also feel like you don't forget your roots…

— Ginuwine

I'm proud of my Italian roots, and I've always believed that I would get the chance to fight for the belt.

— Paulie Malignaggi

“Do not renounce your roots in order to sit on the white mans chair.”

— Surinam proverb

A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ...…

— Brian Swimme

This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious…

— Meister Eckhart

I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy...…

— John Amos

You see, when we talk about perfect trust, we're talking about what gives us roots, character, the stability to handle the hard…

— Charles R. Swindoll

It is very disappointing to see the Punjabi music scene of today. The lyrical quality has deteriorated; it is only people like…

— Harbhajan Singh

When I was in high school and first starting to drive by myself, I listened to Wu Tang in the car, and…

— John Gourley

I just don't accept that there is a trade off between trade and democracy ... what we've got now is an institution…

— Ruth Davidson

Don’t interrupt,’ one of the boys said. ‘He’ll lose his life.’ Seeing it was a matter of life and death, Sophie and…

— Diana Wynne Jones

Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of…

— William Shakespeare

With my solo music, I really try to step out of the box and do stuff I don't get to do with…

— Nick Carter

Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel…

— Henry James Sr

What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge.…

— Bruce Lee

What disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure,…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

To separate from my culture (as from my family) I had to feel competent enough on the outside and secure enough inside…

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

When the back-to-the-cities trend started taking root, albeit very unevenly, cities were so glad to finally land deals that they routinely overpaid,…

— Sandy Smith

“Sometimes a person might point to the roots and say that it is just here that we can find the real Dharma,…

— Sadhak Anshit

We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.

— Norman Jewison

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.

— Angelique Kidjo

I still dabble in different types of music, but I'm sticking to my Country roots.

— Morgan Wallen

I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree.

— John Burroughs

dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.

— John Green

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

— Carl Jung

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest…

— Sarah Ruhl

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

— Ray Charles

“The only people who make any sense in the world are those who know that whatever happens to them has its roots…

— Robertson Davies

Faith is a principle which hath its root deeper feeling. We believe, whether we see or not.

— Charles Spurgeon

Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that…

— Roger Waters

He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You are the root of heaven, the morning star, the bright moon, the house of endless Love

— Rumi

Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves.

— Confucius

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.

— Henry Louis Gates