Roots Quotes · Page 36

What you have to do if you are going to treat any disease is get to the root of the disease.

— Ron Rosedale

And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.

— Moliere

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

— Deborah Norville

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

— John Vanbrugh

No American worth his salt should go looking around for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable…

— Wyndham Lewis

Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.

— Robert Carlyle

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

— Carl Sandburg

I was always taught to be myself, be honest, and be true to my roots.

— Christina Tosi

Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization.…

— Esther Meynell

People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage…

— Anna Quindlen

It's not enough to just be a good singer. You have to know where your roots come from. If you sing jazz,…

— Jinkx Monsoon

It is good to be well connected with English language, literature and history, but the knowledge of our culture and roots is…

— Gulzar

The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I…

— Jennette McCurdy

I am a strong believer in grass roots communities, but I also believe government resources, when available, should be equally available to…

— Liane Holliday Willey

There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right…

— Mike Royko

And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates…

— Sean O'Casey

The irony is that Iraq actually has one of the richest and most sophisticated cuisines in the world. So many classic American…

— Annia Ciezadlo

It's about panic. It's about fear. It's about instilling the American populace with terror, dread, and apprehension about the future. It's all…

— Rush Limbaugh

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is…

— Robert Bringhurst

He's [Constable] a great painter as far as it goes, but I don't think he's remotely interesting. Not really. It's very pretty…

— Mike Leigh

My audience is made up of two groups of people. The first group includes people whose roots are deep in the Christian…

— John Shelby Spong

It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they…

— Rich Mullins

I call myself a radical conservative. What's that? Well, let's analyze it. Go to the dictionary. Radical: One who gets to the…

— Studs Terkel

The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.

— Keith Ablow

Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making.

— Vera Nazarian

“My roots are ready, but I’ll manage to grow only with the help of others. Not just you or J. or my…

— Paulo Coelho

People in general want to build somebody up and then try to knock them down. They always root for the underdog.

— Wayne Gretzky

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

— Henry David Thoreau

Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.

— Georgette Leblanc

I think nowadays it's very important to re-connect with ourselves and our roots.

— Natalia Lafourcade

No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another.

— Amelia Earhart

The planet Earth is my home. So no matter where I go, I can dig my feet and set some roots and…

— Jared Cannonier

If you had one word to describe the root of all this rage, it's humiliation.

— Hamza Yusuf

With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

— Dinesh D'Souza

Family, like branches on a tree,we all grow in different directions, yet our roots remain the same.

— Lena

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

— Simon Kuper

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

— Sara Gruen

After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.

— Andy Andrews