Roots Quotes · Page 42

My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.

— Junot Diaz

I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.

— Alan Greenspan

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

— Joseph Campbell

England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots.

— Caitlin Thomas

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

— Richard Dawkins

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

— Alex Haley

I think if you forget your roots you're lost. It helps to ground you.

— Chuck Panozzo

I'm still very much plugging away. But if I can build my career, I'll do it like Eric Bana. He has a…

— Nathan Phillips

I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's…

— Ricky Jay

In Greek, our word for play is paidia and the word for education is paideia, and it is very natural and right…

— Rebecca Goldstein

The origins of the modern West are often seen in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the roots of…

— Ibn Warraq

The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that…

— Mary Daly

If we had loads of money as a family, things would be different and they'd come to visit more and I'd get…

— Rick Allen

If you take the time to listen to an upset child's story with empathy, and guide the child toward figuring out the…

— Carolyn Hax

I never left my roots. You can identify me as someone that didn't become high and mighty. Humility is a defining [trait]…

— Serena Williams

Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become…

— Dennis Prager

Although the French appellation system has its roots in the 1923 system created in Chateauneuf-du-Pape by Baron Le Roy, proprietor of the…

— Robert M. Parker, Jr

At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel…

— Deb Caletti

The root cause of abortion is the failure to be satisfied in God as our supreme love. And, for all the great…

— John Piper

Active people to revitalize what is really the root of democracy: citizens communicating with each other. Democracy is not just about voting,…

— Howard Rheingold

Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes…

— Terry Goodkind

. . some moment happens in your life that you say yes right up to the roots of your hair, that makes…

— Frederick Buechner

When I consider the state of things in our fief, I find that those who hold positions and receive official stipends are…

— Yoshida Shoin

“Focus on faith and grow your roots strong and deep so no one can make you believe in something that is not…

— Molly Friedenfeld

Faith is not by wishful thinking, it is what takes root in the heart and shows in one's actions.

— Sayyid Qutb

Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.

— Tanith Lee

I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress.

— Hillary Clinton

“It’s too bad war gets all the attention; it’s too bad the plant is easier to see than the root.”

— Cameron Conaway

The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.

— Pema Chodron

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

— Anne Enright

We dare not forget, lest we become a nation that does not only not know its roots but where it’s going

— Mzwakhe Mbuli

I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's…

— Holly Black

A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found…

— Nicholson Baker

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

— Willie Dixon

Too many artists and writers have forgotten their roots. I embrace my fans because, in a way, they're family.

— Jim Steranko

When we did the 'Roots' tour with Cavalera Conspiracy, it was more flashy. It was supposed to be a big deal because…

— Max Cavalera

“I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pilllow.”

— Francisco X. Alarcón

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.

— Fred Upton