Roots Quotes · Page 26

A single kidness throws out roots in all directions and the roots shall spiing big a make new trees

— Ashley Montijo

A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety;…

— Confucius

I believe it is important for the university to always remember its roots.

— Michael N. Castle

“...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

Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival.

— Dalai Lama

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

He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is…

— Max Muller

The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings.

— Anonymous

We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent.…

— David Blunkett

...great feeling of enthusiasm..this human component began to fade away, leaving only that supernatural enthusisam which must always be at the root…

— Salvador Bernal

God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore…

— Bernard of Clairvaux

I would love to document the Roots; I think they have an interesting story. I have a curiosity about them. Their musicality…

— Michael Rapaport

I've got deep roots in Kalamazoo, with a grandfather, Harold Allen, who was a big part of Upjohn Co. for many years…

— David Means

James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all…

— John Guare

[Bob] Dylan's many quotations from classic American roots music (that song is from an album aptly titled Love and Theft) join the…

— Jay Michaelson

I want to be a proud daughter of Punjab. Celebrate my roots - fly, flourish, write stories, characters. Don't hold me and…

— Kanika Dhillon

Karma is like the vine that gathers strength through uninterrupted years, and which fastens its tendrils so closely that it is as…

— William Quan Judge

If you're a song writer, it's a bit different because you are expressing your own words, feelings, perspective. As an actor, you…

— Candice Accola

Some of the things that I do, I think are very important and much more important than the radio show or the…

— Casey Kasem

In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of our discipline,…

— Ruth Behar

There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names.…

— John Woolman

Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time…

— Cornel West

When your heart's gratitude comes to the fore, when you become all gratitude, this gratitude is like a flow, a flow of…

— Sri Chinmoy

We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states…

— Octavio Paz

Paul spoke about the root of faith (Eph 2:8). James spoke about the fruit of faith (Jm 2:17-18).

— Adrian Rogers

Change does not come easily to our party, in spite of its roots in our country's radical tradition.

— Wes Streeting

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

— Samuel Smiles

No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error.

— Stuart Sherman

kindnesses have wings and roots ... wings that never droop, and roots that never die.

— Mary Louisa Molesworth

“If we were meant to stay in one place, we would have roots instead of feet.”

— Rachel Wolchin

Fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.

— Lloyd Bentsen

“When a tree is lost, it can return to its roots to find it's routes.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.

— Thomas Paine

“Roots, I sometimes think, are a conservative myth, designed to keep us in our places.”

— Salman Rushdie

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.

— Fred Upton

“A person is from wherever they feel best, and roots are for plants. Everyone knows that, don't they?”

— Juan Gabriel Vásquez

“I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pilllow.”

— Francisco X. Alarcón

When we did the 'Roots' tour with Cavalera Conspiracy, it was more flashy. It was supposed to be a big deal because…

— Max Cavalera

A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found…

— Nicholson Baker

I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's…

— Holly Black