Roots Quotes · Page 27

Too many artists and writers have forgotten their roots. I embrace my fans because, in a way, they're family.

— Jim Steranko

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

— Willie Dixon

The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.

— Pema Chodron

We dare not forget, lest we become a nation that does not only not know its roots but where it’s going

— Mzwakhe Mbuli

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

— Anne Enright

“It’s too bad war gets all the attention; it’s too bad the plant is easier to see than the root.”

— Cameron Conaway

I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress.

— Hillary Clinton

Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.

— Tanith Lee

Conventional psychiatry has emphasized the genetic roots of psychosis based on the claim that twin and other studies show that schizophrenia is…

— Richard Bentall

Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended… Idleness as such…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my…

— Dylan Thomas

I've been chastised for going into mixed martial arts and backing out. But the reason I backed out was the terms -…

— Kurt Angle

The notion of someone who is fitting in or trying to become part of a larger family... It's hard to separate that…

— Marc Platt

Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal…

— Satish Kumar

Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme,…

— Salman Rushdie

Every act of disobedience committed due to passion, its forgiveness is hoped for. Every act of disobedience committed due to arrogance, its…

— Sufyan al-Thawri

[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under…

— Henry Ward Beecher

International "experts" from technical assistance agencies or universities can make important contributions, but they certainly don't have all the answers. When ownership…

— Ruth Simmons

“It is more than their land that you take away from the people whose native land you take. It is their past…

— Anonymous

Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use…

— Rajneesh

Surely a large part of the zealous repression of radical protest in America has its roots in the fact that millions of…

— John Schaar

The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that…

— Thomas Szasz

Depending on their psychic make up, for some people, closing the eyes or being quiet produces anxiety and increases mental agitation. In…

— Ravi Ravindra

Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Faith is not by wishful thinking, it is what takes root in the heart and shows in one's actions.

— Sayyid Qutb

I think if you forget your roots you're lost. It helps to ground you.

— Chuck Panozzo

“Focus on faith and grow your roots strong and deep so no one can make you believe in something that is not…

— Molly Friedenfeld

England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots.

— Caitlin Thomas

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

— Alex Haley

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

— Richard Dawkins

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

— Joseph Campbell

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

— Miguel de Unamuno

I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.

— Alan Greenspan

My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.

— Junot Diaz

Do not get angry because others question what you believe, be calm and loving, for anger is the root of a faulty…

— Leon Brown

Yes, for me audio-visual performance has its roots in my experience working as an improvising musician and composer.

— Kurt Ralske

The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.

— William Stafford

“My roots are firmly planted in the glory of nature. The soil beneath my feet heartens each step.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

All of us are displaced. Few people live where their great-grandparents lived or speak the language their great-grandparents spoke.

— Hephzibah Menuhin