Roots Quotes · Page 39

Shallow breathing is the root of all evil but conscious deep breathing restores and secures our souls.

— Desmond Green

An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God's goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness.

— William Tyndale

We really look up to bands like INXS and Midnight Oil who always stayed true to their roots.

— Calum Hood

At the root of all power and motion, at the burning center of existence itself, there is music and rhythm.

— George Leonard

Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I try to stay very, very true to my roots and my lifestyle and I wanted to be able to share that…

— Cody Simpson

“And though our roots belong to the same tree, our branches have grown in different directions.”

— Suzy Kassem

At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of…

— George Leonard

You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food…

— Mike Colter

In the Twenties, it wasn't a remarkable thing for a singer to be an actor, or even to be involved in politics.…

— Terrence Howard

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The roots of our statehood go back more than two millennia and two centuries to the origins of the Hun Empire. Building…

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

My musical roots and inspiration lie not in rock n' roll or metal music, but first and foremost in classical music, balalaika,…

— Varg Vikernes

The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it…

— Maureen Howard

I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values…

— Howard Dean

Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is…

— Ezra Taft Benson

We used to rehearse and that's where the roots of Dream Theater formed. Y'know, we used to play cover songs and jam…

— John Petrucci

I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe…

— Oscar Niemeyer

Love is at the root of all healthy discipline. The desire to be loved is a powerful motivation for children to behave…

— Fred Rogers

When it comes to best new artist or album or song of the year, yeah, it's very rare that you see someone…

— Maren Morris

In all honesty, because my name is Cinco and I grew up in Phoenix, I had a lot of exposure to Latin…

— Cinco Paul

We humans are in such a strange position—we are still animals whose behavior reflects that of our ancestors, yet we are unique—unlike…

— Anonymous

I've had different opportunities in my life, but I've tried to maintain the spirit of an amateur. Our culture roots everything in…

— Ethan Hawke

I was born and raised in Chicago and I kind of wanted to go home to where I'm from, where my roots…

— Andrew Santino

It is always nice to keep in touch with our family and know our roots.

— Johnny Lever

A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness

— Dalai Lama

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

— James Russell Lowell

The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.

— Edward Abbey

He knows my heart and that's the part. Your roots are dug up so you might as well give up.

— Jill Scott

“Wrap your legs around my legs and we'll spread our roots beneath the sheets.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

Alex Hailey, who traced his roots all the way to the back of the bus. Never got a dinner!

— Red Buttons

“A tree's beauty lies in its branches, but its strength lies in its roots.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.

— Jimmy Page

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.

— Brennan Manning

“Deep in their roots,’ Roethke had said, ‘all flowers keep the light.”

— Jan Karon

Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have.

— Anonymous

But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.

— Daisaku Ikeda