Roots Quotes · Page 31

We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry…

— Christina Rossetti

Poetry has roots, and sometimes they are aerial. Sometimes they are buried.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet.

— Marilynne Robinson

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I changed my name when we became aware of the African revolution and the whole question of our African roots.

— Amiri Baraka

The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.

— Sophie Swetchine

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.

— Anthony J. D'Angelo

“Let roots grow where love was lost. Honor the life that they had, even though it was short.”

— Laura C. Reden

I don't want a grand villa in a rich suburb alongside white people where many of my former comrades choose to live.…

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I…

— Al Franken

Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell…

— Haruki Murakami

The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have…

— Bertrand Russell

In the room where I work, I have a chalkboard, and as I'm going along, I write the made-up words on it.…

— Neal Stephenson

Surely to root politics out of art is a highly necessary undertaking: for the freedom of art, like that of science, depends…

— Wyndham Lewis

Like a lot of young people growing up in the middle of nowhere, I was desperate to leave my small town behind,…

— KT Tunstall

Far too many athletes have been unable to let go of their troubled roots or just have failed to fully understand their…

— Jemele Hill

The world is a spinning die, and everything turns and changes: man is turned into angel, and angel into man, and the…

— Martin Buber

It is my assumption that growth in faith is the root of all spiritual growth and is prior to all disciplines of…

— Richard Lovelace

...we have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from…

— Bruce Lee

Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the…

— Algernon Sidney

We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hear actresses talking about this all the time - this idea that you sit in meetings and the studio says, "Well,…

— Kristen Stewart

..and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and…

— Yukio Mishima

I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I moved to…

— Diplo

I spent time living in Ethiopia, learning about the cultural importance of coffee and its roots in Ethiopia.

— Rohan Marley

“The seed of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.”

— Joseph Henry

The season of love is that of battle. The roots of these fights run deep.

— Charles Darwin

“It’s precisely when you have lost your roots that everywhere you go matters hugely.”

— Kapka Kassabova

At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop…

— Flo Rida

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

— Charley Pride

Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.

— Jean Paul

The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others.

— Dalai Lama

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.

— Angelique Kidjo

We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.

— Norman Jewison

“Do not renounce your roots in order to sit on the white mans chair.”

— Surinam proverb

I'm proud of my Italian roots, and I've always believed that I would get the chance to fight for the belt.

— Paulie Malignaggi

I think any smart businessman would go where the money is bigger, but I also feel like you don't forget your roots…

— Ginuwine

So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self.

— Alfred Edersheim

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton