Roots Quotes · Page 29

Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have.

— Anonymous

Like a tree that grows stronger with more branches and roots, you need to find more and more ways to be inspired,

— Yiannis Kouros

It is nice to go down the memory lane and remember who I am and what my roots are.

— Amala Akkineni

It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.

— Thomas S. Monson

The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float…are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.

— Mark Kurlansky

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

— D. H. Lawrence

“Do you want to know the real reason I came back, Alix?” It was because of you. You’re my roots. Wherever you…

— Katherine Allred

To the best of my knowledge and of my effort, every lineage statement within 'Roots' is from either my African or American…

— Alex Haley

I'm gonna be real everywhere I go, but I'm with my people, I'm connected to my roots - I'm in my country!…

— J Balvin

Like the tangled veins of cypress roots that meander this way and that in the swamp, everything in New Orleans is interrelated,…

— Dr. John

“The stems of the tree trembled for long Before they gave up to the winds strong They would have continued to sing…

— Neelam Saxena Chandra

The way we treat animals is the root cause of all the human suffering in the world, from poverty, starvation, disease, and…

— Sharon Gannon

Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled…

— Anonymous

“To have deep roots in a place means having dead buried there. It is almost that literal, the dead forming your bond…

— Julene Bair

I consider myself a jazz singer. I think I stick to the roots of improvisation, singing in front of the beat, behind…

— Gregory Porter

Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be…

— Brené Brown

A lot of artists are scared to do that, they are scared to step out on their own. What am I the…

— Shane Bunting

Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation? What do you know of Love except the name? Love has a…

— Rumi

Men sucked. They were the root of every problem any woman could ever have. They were the reason for bras, the need…

— Lora Leigh

“In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground,…

— Roland Barthes

Many [hooligans] discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The…

— Quentin Crisp

I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I'm…

— Danny McBride

Olympus has been a much welcomed return to my Shakespearean roots. King Aegeus demanded a much greater range and depth that I've…

— Graham Shiels

There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.

— Bono

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all stem from the same Abrahamic roots. All three reject terrorism.

— H. John Poole

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

— Kim Kyu-jong

A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears…

— Dalai Lama

He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.

— Louisa May Alcott

When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.

— Walter Hilton

Humility means coming to the root of the matter, honestly looking at yourself and saying: "This is me for better or for…

— Frederick Lenz

Whenever something is convenient or was modified after 1970, you probably shouldn't use it as root.

— John Huston

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

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

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