Roots Quotes · Page 16

“Life is not shallow. We have to dig deep to live.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

The Roots want to dip our toes into everything in the arts.

— Black Thought

God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.

— Theodore Roethke

I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog.

— Judd Apatow

To be radical is to grasp things by the root.

— Karl Marx

The square root of 69 is 8(ate) som'

— Drake

Concentration is at the root of mental mastery.

— Robin Sharma

The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.

— Simone Weil

“A tree stands strong not by its fruits or branches, but by the depth of its roots.”

— Anthony Liccione

I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz, but the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC.

— Adrian Grenier

Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.

— John Green

I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.

— Bryant H. McGill

I didn't truly understand the depth of my roots until I was old enough to wonder and care.

— Aeriel Miranda

marriages do not take root in the presence of witnesses but only in the consciousness of the persons involved.

— Libbie Block

Words are the vibrations of nature. Therefore, beautiful words create beautiful nature. Ugly words create ugly nature. This is the root of…

— Masaru Emoto

The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys…

— Bernard of Clairvaux

I always think to myself that if I was able to transition from lucha libre style to American style, then I can…

— Rey Mysterio

The common root, of course, comes out of Africa. That's the pulse.The African pulse. It's all the way back from . .…

— Duke Ellington

“My African roots made me what I am today. They’re the reason I’m from the Dominican Republic. They’re the reason I exist…

— Junot Díaz

In our hearts there burns a fire... That burns all veils to their root and foundation When those veils have been burned…

— Rumi

We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find…

— Louis de Bernieres

If people perceive you as a good actor then they'll wish for you to be a good actor and they'll root for…

— Shia LaBeouf

Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with…

— Franz Boas

What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of…

— Thomas Jefferson

I was always drawn to the roots music, bluegrass, blues, early rock - Sun Records, Elvis [Presley]. And I still love that…

— Steve Young

Donald Trump has pulled something off that I have never seen pulled off. And it is, I think, at the root of…

— Rush Limbaugh

Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts…

— Donald Knuth

Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty. Let the world tell…

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

The sense of Islam as a threatening Other - with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational - develops during the colonial…

— Edward Said

How many brave Men, courageous Women, and innocent Children did I see butcher'd, to do God good Service?. .. I went to…

— Mary Davys

The noble must make humility his root.

— Laozi

My roots are planted in the past, though my life is changing fast.

— Anonymous

My roots allow me to let go of the fear of failure.

— Sissy Spacek

You can root for someone who's imperfect.

— Heidi Ewing

I always consider myself a Hyderabadi; my roots are here.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

Nobody can ask us to abjure our fascist roots.

— Gianfranco Fini

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

— John Lydon

My professional and personal roots in Alabama are deep and lasting.

— Coretta Scott King