Roots Quotes · Page 26

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

— Delmore Schwartz

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

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

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

— John Adams

Growing up black in America, and with Southern roots in my family, I was informed in my own life.

— Rob Morgan

Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality.

— Bharati Mukherjee

Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy.

— E. O. Wilson

“One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Not all Republicans are rich, dress in three-piece suits, and have $200 haircuts. I'm somebody who's lived from paycheck to paycheck. I'm…

— Joe Wurzelbacher

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I…

— Van Morrison

There are some things you don’t have to know how it works – only that it works. While some people are studying…

— Jim Rohn

The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that…

— John Baldoni

O, You who are ever giving life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them clean, wiping out…

— Hildegard of Bingen

The root-word "buddha" means to wake up, to know, to understand; and he or she who wakes up and understands is call…

— Nhat Hanh

On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“The roots were really strong. So no matter what happens to the outside, it can still thrive. If the really important parts…

— E. Lee

But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe…

— John Green

My parents are the hardest-working people I ever knew: they always worked every day, all day; they had to come up with…

— Peggy Whitson

A weapon based on Time . . ." mused Viktor Mulciber. "Well, why not? The one force no one knows how to…

— Thomas Pynchon

Meaningful relationships are worth more than hundred-dollar trees, and they deserve all the time, effort, and energy they need to become strong…

— Lloyd D. Newell

I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It…

— Alice Oswald

Jacobins, I have a truth to tell you. You do not know your most deadly enemies; they are the constitutional priests. It…

— Jean-Paul Marat

The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the…

— David Cameron

We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity…

— Gabrielle Giffords

Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.

— Plato

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

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.

— Henry David Thoreau

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

— Rumi

We are going back to our roots by cultivating new unsigned talent who otherwise might go unnoticed.

— Tommy Hilfiger

A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.

— Austin O'Malley

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

— Ernest Becker

Karma is the root cause of success and failure in every aspect of life.

— ZHI GANG SHA

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

— Carl Sandburg

Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us.

— David Steindl-Rast

It's funny; as I get older I'm reverting to my roots - I want to plant stuff.

— Melissa McCarthy

A fan without a team is like a hog without truffles - she has nothing to root for.

— Carol Tavris

You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the road The roots are deep inside us It's the rhythm in our soul.

— Brian Wilson

It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place…

— Margaret Mead

I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.

— Anonymous