Roots Quotes · Page 24

Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.

— Julian Baggini

I really consider myself a Californian, but I have those great comedic roots in Brooklyn.

— Mary Tyler Moore

I don't think I've ever spoken to anyone who's told me that the story of 'Roots' isn't important.

— Malachi Kirby

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

I am a fan of today's sound as long as we don't get too slick, and yet I am very reverent of…

— Wynonna Judd

Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is…

— George Orwell

My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.

— William Carlos Williams

Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.

— Richard Foreman

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even Bollywood films set in rural areas have music with a western touch. So, this has resulted in listeners losing touch with…

— Vidyasagar

The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the…

— Plato

We come from God. As the tree from the root and the stream from the spring; that's why we should always be…

— Pythagoras

If we look at the complexity of the challenges facing western societies today, we see that the problems are not really about…

— Mariana Mazzucato

You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the…

— John Cho

Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history. Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots of…

— Steven Heller

When I read about Gram Parsons' dream of this Cosmic American Music when I was in my late teens, that stuck with…

— Richard Ashcroft

I realize the importance of retelling those stories is so that, one, we don't forget what our ancestors had to do so…

— Stephan James

At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography…

— Paul Caponigro

Wonderful songwriting, beautiful production, and deeply rooted in what makes American Roots Music great: Deep Southern Pain. It's the hurt that brings…

— Mary Gauthier

In the Old Testament…God is the owner of the vineyard. Here He is the Keeper, the Farmer, the One who takes care…

— J. Vernon McGee

The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow…

— Isabel Allende

How to avoid cliche at the root of conception? Practice sincerity. If we've come by ... material honestly, through our own personal…

— Peter Selgin

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking…

— George Burns

“From the soil of mistakes, we harvest lessons of wellbeing, watering our roots with the wisdom of experience.”

— Dr Prem Jagyasi

Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it…

— John Piper

To get the adrenaline pumping between events - or to help me switch off, Jay Z, the Roots and Drake are on…

— Jessica Ennis

I'm sort of a Southerner because those are my roots, but my parents are from Iowa.

— Geneva Carr

Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

'The Last Kingdom''s got its roots in history, and it's a lot grittier. It doesn't have the 'Game of Thrones' gloss.

— Alexander Dreymon

Make sure your main characters are likeable. They can be flawed, but your readers need to be able to root for them.

— Janet Evanovich

I'm very attached to my roots, but I feel Italian more than anything else.

— Stephan El Shaarawy

I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people…

— Coco Lee

Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.

— Elie Wiesel

I don't believe in the whole thing of staying anywhere - we are meant to explore, to travel, and meant to spread…

— Slowthai

The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart.

— John Owen

It is my hope that the establishment part of the Democratic Party will heed what the grass roots is saying.

— Nina Turner

“...putting down roots doesn't mean you're trapped of stifled or even...ordinary. It just means that you figured out where home is.”

— Nina Lane

Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.

— Rajneesh

I always root for the bad guy and I don't think you have a great movie without a great villain.

— Mark Wahlberg