You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I went to high school in Texas for one year, my senior year. My parents wanted me to get out of Stockholm… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
Our loss put six feet under ground Is measured by the magnolia's root; Our gain's the intellectual sound Of death's feet round… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
And what a congress of stinks!- Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
There are two sides of me, the bachata/tropical Latin side and the English pop as well. They're both equally important, so I'll… — Prince Royce Copy Share Image
Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Fascism is the most inherently evil political ideology that man has ever devised. Wherever we see even the smallest sapling of fascism… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
What I've learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means "to pull… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I made the big turnaround in the early Nineties when I started hearing all the tenth generation punk bands like Green Day… — Jane Wiedlin Copy Share Image
This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After I did the drawings of trees combining them with words, I started doing - I did that for a very short… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I'm black and Cuban, Australian and Irish, and like most people in America, I'm someone whose roots come from somewhere else. I'm… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
“Someone asked me what home was, and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
loneliness has its roots in words,in internal conversation that nodbody answers,solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity. — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I'm gonna be real everywhere I go, but I'm with my people, I'm connected to my roots - I'm in my country!… — J Balvin Copy Share Image
To the best of my knowledge and of my effort, every lineage statement within 'Roots' is from either my African or American… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
The way we treat animals is the root cause of all the human suffering in the world, from poverty, starvation, disease, and… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
“The stems of the tree trembled for long Before they gave up to the winds strong They would have continued to sing… — Neelam Saxena Chandra Copy Share Image
Like the tangled veins of cypress roots that meander this way and that in the swamp, everything in New Orleans is interrelated,… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
When the Killers first came out, a lot of people thought we were English, and it touched a chord in me, because… — Brandon Flowers Copy Share Image
People in the UK will say that the design community in the US is much more coherent than other countries. It has… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
I consider myself a jazz singer. I think I stick to the roots of improvisation, singing in front of the beat, behind… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To have deep roots in a place means having dead buried there. It is almost that literal, the dead forming your bond… — Julene Bair Copy Share Image
My music is roots music: it's a combination of growing up on the coast and mucking around with wood and wooden tones… — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
I want to try different things but, most importantly, always be true to my roots and keep it organic. I'm never going… — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
As the woodpecker taps in a spiral quest From the root to the top of the tree, Then flies to another tree,… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music… — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
![“The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of nerves, and put the Ego only in one body, if the mind is omnipresent? There is no reason why I should.[Source] The root of that degeneration is egotism - to think that one is just as great as…” quote by Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/c0f/swami-vivekananda-53_body_the-mind-in-its-foolishness-thinks-that_340144.jpg)
