To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots. — Richard Mabey Copy Share Image
An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by… — Aesop Copy Share Image
So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and… — Kenny Smith 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
That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss 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
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I think about Shakespeare. Because there have been hundreds of variations of Shakespeare's plays since they've been written, and I believe it's… — Malachi Kirby Copy Share Image
I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of the tree feeds on in secret,… — Rumi Copy Share Image
America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end… — Stelios Haji-Ioannou Copy Share Image
Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
People cooked with a certain integrity before fast food, 50 or 60 years ago. When the cheap food arrived, and we didn't… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Problems are not solved on the level of problems. Analyzing a problem to find its solution is like trying to restore freshness… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
Most people don't relate to and can't generate concern for something they don't encounter personally or feel personally affected by. People have… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm… — Maria Menounos 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
I've become a functioning cog in the machine called The Roots, but in my youth I was comin' from a more braggadocious,… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image