Roots Quotes · Page 28

My favourite poem is called 'Roots and Wings' - it's a very moving poem about how if you've got real roots you…

— David Miliband

Surround yourself with positive people. Also, be a positive person. Root for people. Somebody else's success is not your failure.

— Bill Burr

The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace.

— Jean Klein

Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do.

— Vishnudevananda Saraswati

“that means that to be Africentric I need to remember my ancestors, which is the way to resurrect myself.”

— Minster Faust

We are very proud of our roots in Manchester. We like to back our own.

— Ricky Hatton

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

— Jill Lepore

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

— Salman Rushdie

Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned…

— Bill Nye

All the religions have deviated from its roots, and the main thing was that you must have your Realization, you must have…

— Nirmala Srivastava

We plant our roots in trembling earth, we live where mountains rose and fell and prehistoric seas burned away in mist. We…

— Robert R. McCammon

I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what…

— Luis Guzman

The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America (is that it) has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal…

— Hunter S. Thompson

To me, the whole thing with the roots of rap music was when the DJ had to supply all the music for…

— Mike D

Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the…

— Tobias Wolff

Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took…

— J. C. Ryle

Some say the antique syndrome surfaced to offset the newness of the land, the homes, and the settlers. Some say the interest…

— Erma Bombeck

I don't believe that anyone connected with bullfighting would deny that what happens in the ring has an element of suffering and…

— Bette Ford

It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they…

— John Henrik Clarke

I have said this to explain the stanza that follows, in which the soul replies to those who call in question its…

— John of the Cross

... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother…

— Hans Zinsser

“Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to…

— Lawrence Hargrave

By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight, afraid, angry,…

— Ken Keyes Jr

The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women…

— Rebecca West

You were the leaves, basking in the sunlight. I was the root, growing in the darkness ~Danzo

— Masashi Kishimoto

I've never forgot my roots and where I came from, and I'd not change a thing about my journey.

— Buddy Murphy

By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.

— Rabindranath Tagore

We must take root; send out some little fibre at least, even every winter day.

— Henry David Thoreau

The things that are considered to be respectable have their roots in unrespectable things.

— Steven Knight

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

— Victor Hugo

“Sucess is a big tree with many branches,but every tree needs strong roots to hold on harsh times that's hardwork.”

— Maya Krishnamoorthy

[Allied] meant to be a film that's a bit different. It's roots are in the '40s and '50s, and that sort of…

— Steven Knight

And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

— Rumi

Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. It’s also the root of a lot…

— Michael Gungor

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

— Jose Marti

The roots of apple were to build computers for people, not for corporations. The world doesn't need another dell or compaq.

— Steve Jobs

The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem.

— Suze Orman

I am completely attached to my roots, and therefore you will see a Pahadi touch in all my albums.

— Mohit Chauhan

The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.

— Andrew Bird

Being a singer is not just for popularity, it is more like cheering people's hearts and never forget my root.

— Kim Kyu-jong