When the doubters tell you it can't be done and all kind of tragedies will come your way, I say nonsense. If… — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule… — Erin Gray Copy Share Image
The Labor roots are very strong.Paul Keating, made a comment several years ago about looking at that dragging yourself out of poverty,… — Warren Mundine Copy Share Image
It's the bond between mother and child, which is really for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I grew up in a strong faith-based family. I think I have selected to return to those roots for strength, for my… — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I've been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don't have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“We heard about people who go back to their roots. That is good, but don't get stuck in the root. There is… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
If it was true that moss did not have roots, and maternal love could grow spontaneously, as if from nothing, perhaps I… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh Copy Share Image
I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel… — David Frum Copy Share Image
To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Another writer asserts that the tyranny of man over woman has its roots, after all, in his nobler feelings; his love, his… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
We are children of chaos, and the deep structure of change is decay. At root, there is only corruption, and the unstemmable… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
It is important to us to understand and discuss a "vision" with both leagues and then sponsor the league that best matches… — John Robinson Copy Share Image
If you're blessed to do something like 'Roots'... you find yourself immersed. You're asked to do this, to do that - all… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
When we did 'Eliminator,' at the time, it was experimental for us. It obviously turned out real successful, but at the time,… — Dusty Hill Copy Share Image
Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
The scientific and societal achievements of the modern age are undisputable. But after the French Revolution, modernity increasingly emancipated itself from Christian… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We don't want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate… — John R. Allen Copy Share Image
The roots of India's soft power run deep. India's is a civilization that, over millennia, has offered refuge and, more importantly, religious… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
Everybody nowadays rhymes, but out of the people that really, really do it well, it's still a small community of artists. We… — MF Doom Copy Share Image
We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part… — Roger Mahony Copy Share Image
Home' was a special album for very specific reasons. It is an homage to my father. And it is the first classical… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
I made money. I wanted to give it back to Africa but I wanted to give it back in a meaningful way.… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
A hidden Bliss is at the root of things. A mute Delight regards Time's countless works: To house God's joy in things… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
If we once and for so long lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share Image
When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What's being considered now is solidifying my place in the NBA. Keep focusing on the grass roots, because I want the next… — Steven Adams Copy Share Image
As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities... No, there is the root of the evil. There is… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
We take ourselves way too seriously, and we don't take God seriously enough. It is not by accident that humor and humility… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I really got back to my New Orleans roots - my grandfather played with Fats Domino. We had to leave after Katrina,… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
