Roots Quotes · Page 27

People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.

— Katee Sackhoff

People who achieve access to the deepest roots of their freedom can completely change.

— Peter Koestenbaum

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.

— Henry Threadgill

Po's [Kung Fu Panda] unending enthusiasm is something we wish we could have. We can't help but root for him because of…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.

— Donald E. Westlake

I have fallen back in love with music, which has allowed me to get back to my roots and create sounds without…

— Scott Storch

What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and…

— Tony Blair

The mystical kundalini goes the other direction. It starts at the base of the spine, at the root chakra and goes up.

— Frederick Lenz

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull…

— Sharon Stone

I am all kinds of a democrat, so far as I can discover but the root of the whole business is this,…

— Woodrow Wilson

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about…

— Douglas Coupland

The pain that comes from deep love makes your love more fruitful. It is like a plow that breaks the ground to…

— Henri Nouwen

I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all…

— Joseph Heller

It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a…

— Kate Bush

At the root of all the varied manifestations of dancing, lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states…

— Jamake Highwater

You can become quite blase, and also, I have no sense of home; I don't have roots. I've never had that feeling…

— Lykke Li

I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set…

— Ronald Reagan

There is no institution more vital to our Nation's survival than the American family. Here the seeds of personal character are planted,…

— Ronald Reagan

Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global…

— Ayn Rand

I pray the Pope [Francis] can use his moral authority to inspire true religious freedom, and bring us closer to the day…

— Marco Rubio

I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other…

— Tony Kushner

Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands,…

— Anonymous

He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of…

— Virginia Woolf

I just naturally started to play music. My whole family played-my daddy played, my mother played. My daddy played bass, my cousin…

— T-Bone Walker

I'm going back to the old Shaq. I was normal last year - I was an earthling last summer. I had to…

— Shaquille O'Neal

The roots of the deepest love die in the heart, if not tenderly cherished.

— Johann Gottfried Herder

I'll never forget where I'm from, never forget my roots. It doesn't matter where I live. I'm English, simple as that.

— David Beckham

“And roots, if they are to bear fruits, must be kept well in the soil of the land.”

— Pearl S. Buck

Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots

— Smokey Robinson

Never have the world's moneys been so long cut off from their metallic roots.

— Murray Rothbard

We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an…

— Alan Watts

I thought ‘I wonder what will happen if I try and root myself somewhere?‘ Look back over the past eight years.

— Laura Marling

I didn't get nervous when I ran, but I get nervous watching other people now. I root for anybody with a USA…

— Gail Devers

Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come…

— Charles Olson

My roots have never left me... because the very first memory I have is my mom singing and me singing with her.

— Charlie Haden

Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.’ (Talon)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can always tell if a guy knows where his roots are and what he's doing.

— Porter Wagoner

Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.

— Rosa Luxemburg

Prayer is a ritual! But at the root of prayer is the idea of complete bowing down in submission to the Will…

— Louis Farrakhan