Roots Quotes · Page 23

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

— Charles Caleb Colton

Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance.

— Barbara Holland

I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to…

— Carlene Carter

Just Because Your Leaves Are A Different Color Doesn't Mean They Need To Judge You By The Roots.

— Cesar Jeronimo

Jared Kushner has sort of betrayed the Democratic roots that his family grew up in.

— Sarah Ellison

The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.

— Sally Hawkins

The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested…

— J. I. Packer

On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins.

— King James I

When day begins to break I count my blessings, good and bad, Being wakeful for your sake, Remembering the covenant we've always…

— Anonymous

The roots of our ecological crises are axiomatic: they lie in our belief and value structures which shape our relationship with nature,…

— Ziauddin Sardar

I grew up watching classic animation, and I have always felt that the roots of animation is in fantasy and taking it…

— Chris Wedge

I know I'm not going to understand women. I'll never understand how you can take boiling hot wax, pour it onto your…

— Jerry Seinfeld

'Roots' focuses on a particular group of people who defy the odds and win, eventually, even if it isn't in their lifetimes.…

— Malachi Kirby

I was on the beach, and I was just thinking to myself that I have no one place where I actually feel…

— Alice Merton

Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm,…

— Gregory Maguire

Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy;…

— Horace Mann

The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of…

— Ayn Rand

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we…

— Ronald Reagan

Being the governor of a state is a more pivotal job in the future. I do indeed hope there's someone that says,…

— Rick Perry

The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They're wounded worse by sobbing, men like that, than they…

— Gregory David Roberts

When I started making music, we'd lost a lot of our great people. Rock was moving in a direction I didn't like.…

— Patti Smith

Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making…

— Sheryl Sandberg

The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian…

— Dorothy Dunnett

Your soul is the root, its the root of everything. And when He tells you how to handle sex, He made it,…

— Lacey Mosley

Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

— Amelia Earhart

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

— Dalai Lama

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

“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

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

— Gloria Gaither

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

— Vidyasagar

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

— Henning Mankell

I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.

— John Evelyn

A big shop in Manhattan would feel like we were betraying our roots. And we're not just going to open a bunch…

— James Jebbia

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

Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth…

— Charles Caleb Colton