“A person is from wherever they feel best, and roots are for plants. Everyone knows that, don't they?” — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
“When a tree is lost, it can return to its roots to find it's routes.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“Roots, I sometimes think, are a conservative myth, designed to keep us in our places.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
kindnesses have wings and roots ... wings that never droop, and roots that never die. — Mary Louisa Molesworth Copy Share Image
“If we were meant to stay in one place, we would have roots instead of feet.” — Rachel Wolchin Copy Share Image
Fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf. — Lloyd Bentsen Copy Share Image
No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error. — Stuart Sherman Copy Share Image
Symptoms like anxiety, depression, aggression, alcohol or drug use, are responses to physical and emotional pain that has its roots in traumatic… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You'll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree,… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
Some black people want to get in touch with their African roots. But then you got some black people that just don't… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
The American civil space program is growing to maturity. It has passed through the joys and crises of precocious childhood and now… — John Noble Wilford Copy Share Image
I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
A choice is the root of all morality. Without choice, one can have no moral code. In a vacuum bereft of alternatives,… — Dave Galanter Copy Share Image
We talk of regional conflicts, of economic and social crises, of political instability, of abuses of human rights, of racism, religious intolerance,… — Poul Hartling Copy Share Image
I couldn't know about my culture, my history, without learning the language, so I started learning Arabic - reading, writing. I used… — eL Seed Copy Share Image
The Death of Money is an engrossing account of the massive stresses accumulating in the global financial system, especially since the 2008… — John H. Makin Copy Share Image
Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.' 'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The 'snakebot', which is a type of mechanized, biologically inspired robot, itself has roots in Japanese laboratories of the 1970s. What the… — Kelly Evans Copy Share Image
The society which we have built can in no way be termed "state socialism."The social organization which we have created can be… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Change does not come easily to our party, in spite of its roots in our country's radical tradition. — Wes Streeting Copy Share Image
“...We'll exchange rings, we'll throw rice. We'll put down roots.' We don't have roots. We're network people. We have aerials.” — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Paul spoke about the root of faith (Eph 2:8). James spoke about the fruit of faith (Jm 2:17-18). — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
I believe it is important for the university to always remember its roots. — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety;… — Confucius Copy Share Image
A single kidness throws out roots in all directions and the roots shall spiing big a make new trees — Ashley Montijo Copy Share Image
Square Roots creates campuses of climate-controlled, indoor, hydroponic vertical farms, right in the hearts of our biggest cities. — Kimbal Musk Copy Share Image
It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride. — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear. — Rumi Copy Share Image
