Roots Quotes · Page 38

I'm really in touch with my Italian roots. My mom's whole side of the family is there.

— Alessia Cara

People think 'Roots' was planned but it wasn't. I just had a couple of ideas and the name.

— Max Cavalera

Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on.

— Gloria Gaither

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

— Henning Mankell

Even if you want to try out something new, that should not be done without losing your roots.

— Vidyasagar

“to feel our roots are connected, even if I never see that leaf of grass again.”

— John Green

The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.

— Quentin Bell

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

— Dalai Lama

I realized that a tree never says, "I have too many branches." It simply digs deeper roots, expands itself to catch more…

— Brenda Strong

“We cannot win a powerful enemy by fighting with arms. We can achieve our purpose by hitting at the roots. When I…

— Ravi Ranjan Goswami

What motivates someone who's become wealthy to go out and work in the ghetto with those who are poor? What motivates one…

— Frederick Lenz

To be fair, I have no idea what my natural hair colour is any more - and I have no intention of…

— Susanna Reid

Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge of driftwood along the beach, wanting! They derive from a slow and powerful root…

— Rumi

Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch…

— Amy Carmichael

As I grow older, it's getting more and more important to me. I'm becoming conscious and learning to celebrate where I'm from…

— Vick Hope

“But I suppose our childhoods are seeds inside of us that plant roots forever, even when we’re certain their life cycles have…

— Allison Winn Scotch

Ages of experience have taught us that the commitment of a husband and a wife to love and to serve one another…

— George W. Bush

The Simonian system can be extracted from the writings of Hippolytus. The cosmos begins with the one root, which is unfathomable Silence,…

— Edward F Edinger

Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen; it cannot afford concealed wealth, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown…

— Thomas Carlyle

So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and…

— Kenny Smith

He smiles sadly. "Now I know my destiny." "What is it?" "This." He draws me in to him in a kiss. His…

— Libba Bray

He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the…

— Alexander Lowen

Communism which feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls shall not take root in the United States.

— Emanuel Celler

I want to be reborn as a tree; that way I can plant my roots down, never move and can never be…

— Son Eun-seo

The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.

— Laozi

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the…

— John Millington Synge

A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back…

— Maynard James Keenan

I think all of this—The Roots and DJing included—was meant to prepare me for The Tonight Show.

— Questlove

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

— Frances Moore Lappé

I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not…

— Sylvia Plath

From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.

— Pablo Neruda

'Maruvarthai' was an exciting song for me because it showcased my Carnatic roots.

— Sid Sriram

Agriculture has deep roots both in my life and in Arkansas' history.

— Conner Eldridge

The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

— Amelia Earhart

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

— Isabel Allende

It is curious that the leaf should so love the light and the root so hate it.

— Celia Thaxter

Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.

— Thomas a Kempis

Bless us, divine number, who generated gods and men. Number contains the root and source of eternally flowing creation.

— Pythagoras