Roots Quotes · Page 25

When I was in school, my first acknowledgement of 'Roots' was Kunta Kinte.

— Malachi Kirby

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'

— Whit Stillman

Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.

— Frederic Bastiat

Bjork is one of my oldest friends so we share the friendship and common roots. That is what we build on when…

— Sjon

That's the great thing that happened with 'Roots.' It opened up the dialogue.

— Leslie Uggams

Many for whom the stage has been the launch pad to cinema have forgotten their roots. I don't intend to, ever.

— Y. G. Mahendran

Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.

— Vincent de Paul

I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate.…

— Rick Riordan

As much as he's been through, he's so alive and open to change. That's what I wanted to channel and I feel…

— Kofi Siriboe

Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to…

— Pablo Antonio Cuadra

When I say, "Be my lover", I don't mean, "Let's have an affair." I don't mean "Sleep with me." I don't mean,…

— David Levithan

The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in…

— Pico Iyer

Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in…

— Daisaku Ikeda

It's so great to have that opportunity with so many young American players coming up now. It's just so exciting. We have…

— Serena Williams

Our parents taught us to work hard and never forget our family roots, where we came from, and how much effort it…

— Oscar Munoz

“She tried to remember all the times she had spoken to him. She replayed every moment she could remember at the beach…

— Mahita Vas

. . . since being a Jew not only means that I bear within me a catastrophe that occurred yesterday and cannot…

— Jean Amery

The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are…

— Aldous Huxley

Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away,…

— Ray Bradbury

In almost every musical ever written, there's a place that's usually about the third song of the evening - sometimes it's the…

— Howard Ashman

You can’t lose with the stuff I use!”; “Some may say money is the root of all evil, but being in poverty…

— Reverend Ike

The type of acting that I'm interested in, that I aspire to, is where I try and drag a lot of myself…

— Tobias Menzies

A heavenly location for the actions of the savior gods, including the death of Christ, would also have been influenced by most…

— Earl Doherty

Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.

— Edward Young

We are destined to be roots, trunks, branches, and wings. When flying is out of reach, we are two hands of dirt…

— Mariana Fulger

I seem restless, but am deeply at ease. Branches tremble; the roots are still.

— Rumi

Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.

— Jacques Audiard

You cannot build a grass-roots campaign unless you are connecting with people.

— Ted Cruz

Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same…

— Nora Roberts

Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write?

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.

— Maria Montessori

I like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able.

— Frances Moore Lappé

Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.

— Rumi

Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

— Saint John Chrysostom

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

I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

— Salma Hayek

Square Roots creates campuses of climate-controlled, indoor, hydroponic vertical farms, right in the hearts of our biggest cities.

— Kimbal Musk

It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.

— Ann Brashares