Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality. — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Growing up black in America, and with Southern roots in my family, I was informed in my own life. — Rob Morgan Copy Share Image
Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy. — John Adams Copy Share Image
When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots. — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots. — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them ‘common’ to all participants in the discourse.… — Robin Lakoff Copy Share Image
Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have taught, I… — Laozi Copy Share Image
It's very important to set your place in a concrete environment. I think Chekhov said that the important thing when you have… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
I was 7 years old when 'Roots' was first broadcast, and my parents gathered all us kids around the TV to learn… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
There was a time when 'fear of God' meant piety, or at least conscience. Today, it more accurately describes the worldview of… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ...… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“There is a fable in the forest Whispered by the branches, as they blow. A tale about the truth of leaving Things… — Erin Hanson Copy Share Image
I think this is one of the greatest strengths of this school. Not only do the students go on to achieve great… — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
The world is part of our own self and we are a part of its suffering wholeness. Until we go to the… — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Copy Share Image
Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of a lack of evidence or because of… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Why all of these broken homes? What happens to marriages that begin with sincere love and a desire to be loyal and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life… — Arthur Hailey Copy Share Image
Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Every time someone asks me where I'm from, I'm not sure how to answer that question... so I say I have no… — Alice Merton Copy Share Image
I've always been a bit of a lost soul, and I think that goes back to me being adopted and not knowing… — Finn Jones Copy Share Image
Someone suggested elocution lessons but there is no way I am changing my accent, I'm proud of my roots. — Sara Davies Copy Share Image
No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm like a tree. My leaves might change color, but my roots are the same. — Rose Namajunas Copy Share Image
Profound music leads us beyond language...to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We are going back to our roots by cultivating new unsigned talent who otherwise might go unnoticed. — Tommy Hilfiger Copy Share Image
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots. — Rumi Copy Share Image
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What I wanted to do in talking about basketball in 'Hoop Roots' was retrieve the game as something to participate in, not… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it. — Plato Copy Share Image
“One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without… — Graham Taylor Copy Share Image
