Roots Quotes · Page 35

When we as a nation, strive in vain to preserve the beauty of our national life, forgetting our biblical roots, we are…

— Richard Halverson

I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena.

— Francisco Varela

A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

— Pope Francis

If the story-teller is to nourish the roots of his culture, society must set him free to follow his vision wherever it…

— Mahesh Bhatt

I don't think, to be a traveler, you have to reject setting roots up.

— Mat Kearney

The words "genius" and "genuine" derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity.

— Alan Cohen

The difference between a Black Thought album and a Roots album is the texture, the instrumentation.

— Black Thought

It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman's social superiority lies at the root of these rules of…

— Humphry Davy

Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant…

— Anonymous

I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all…

— Craig Ferguson

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent…

— Julie Andrews

Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish,…

— Juanes

I’d be glad to go out on a limb with those Who want nothing beyond what the wind bestows, Were I not…

— Anonymous

The outlaw is the radical, the one close to the roots of existence. The one who refuses to forget their humanity and,…

— David Whyte

Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good,…

— Taisen Deshimaru

The two lines from 'Roots' that stick out to me are, 'You no more in Africa. You in America now,' and what…

— Louis Gossett, Jr

Because we lack sharp claws, aren't very fast on our feet, and aren't exactly endowed with lightning reflexes, it would be very…

— Sharon Gannon

If busyness can become a kind of violence, we do not have to stretch our perception very far to see that Sabbath…

— Wayne Muller

A legacy that powerful does not disappear. Next to the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans were babies. Our modern nations like Great…

— Rick Riordan

Spiritual seeking means knowing this negative part: that desiring is the root cause of frustration. To desire is to create, of one's…

— Anonymous

Desire means you are dragged out of the moment; that creates a tension, that creates anxiety, that creates hope. And then finally…

— Rajneesh

The effect of the corporation, under the prevailing policy of the free, go-as-you-please method of organization and management, has been to drive…

— Peter S. Grosscup

It says, I think, that at root that we're children, or we'd like to be. And the best of us each keep…

— John Thorn

One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain,…

— Haruki Murakami

Discipline comes from the same root word as disciple, and implies patience and teaching on our part. It should not be done…

— Lynn G. Robbins

My first game was against India and while my roots will always be Indian I was born in England and wanted to…

— Isa Guha

What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.

— William P. Leahy

Each free kick carries my name, and all are my children. And they have South American roots.

— Andrea Pirlo

the path of goodness had a name it is called Love in it we find the key to every hope and has…

— Pope John Paul II

One of my best friends while shooting 'Roots' was Vic Morrow, the guy that whips Kunta.

— Louis Gossett, Jr

I've got my roots in Northern Ireland - my biological father's side of the family were from Belfast.

— KT Tunstall

I'ma always stick to my roots, but whatever life brings, that's what is meant.

— Young M.A

Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture.

— Billy Graham

I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

The belief in a single truth is the root cause for all evil in the world.

— Max Born

Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ.

— Joyce Meyer

But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.

— Edvard Munch

We can't fix the real problems if we only cauterize and don't treat the roots of evil.

— Emmanuel Macron

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

— Charles Dickens

Ideas must counter ideas. You can drop all the bombs you want, but if you don't pull up weeds by their roots,…

— Hamza Yusuf