Roots Quotes · Page 32

From a family tree that has healthy roots, there emerge hearty leaves and most beautiful fruits.

— Wes Fesler

We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.

— Anita Roddick

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

— St. Catherine of Siena

Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.

— Marshall McLuhan

I feel sorry for anyone that I am obsessed with. I am worse than gum in your hair, very, very close to…

— Margaret Cho

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

— Blaise Pascal

I'm still very much a West Virginia boy. I haven't forgotten my roots, because that's really who I am.

— Jerry West

When you focus on the third chakra it has to pull the kundalini from the root center, through the second, up to…

— Frederick Lenz

Network marketing is really the greatest source of grass-roots capitalism, because it teaches people how to take a small bit of capital,…

— Jim Rohn

I have had a number of patients with breast cancer, all of whom had root canals on the tooth related to the…

— John Diamond

I base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow…

— Tyler Hilton

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self-control, since all emotions,…

— Daniel Goleman

I paint a tree - I think of how the roots go deep, deep into the earth. How the tree grows year…

— Douglas Lockwood

Since we've come to Charlotte, we very quickly realized that this is home. This community quickly embraced our family, so we put…

— Greg Olsen

To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to…

— Clare Short

our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery,…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Just as bank tellers need a thorough knowledge of legitimate currency in order to spot counterfeit bills, so Christians need a thorough…

— Charles R. Swindoll

I still wasn't convinced that tossing a shoe didn't mean you harbored an anger-management problem, but I did understand love now. How…

— Erin McCarthy

Caste is a state of mind. It is a disease of mind. The teachings of the Hindu religion are the root cause…

— B. R. Ambedkar

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground -…

— Joyce Meyer

At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography…

— Paul Caponigro

I realize the importance of retelling those stories is so that, one, we don't forget what our ancestors had to do so…

— Stephan James

In the Old Testament…God is the owner of the vineyard. Here He is the Keeper, the Farmer, the One who takes care…

— J. Vernon McGee

Wonderful songwriting, beautiful production, and deeply rooted in what makes American Roots Music great: Deep Southern Pain. It's the hurt that brings…

— Mary Gauthier

Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will…

— Deepak Chopra

The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Two great things you can give your children: one is roots, the other is wings.

— Hodding Carter

With Hitler it was all floating, without roots, intangible and mediumistic.

— Ernst Hanfstaengl

I'm still blue collar in my heart. It comes from strong Long Island family roots.

— Jim Breuer

The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.

— Sanford Meisner

Poland and my roots are very important for me. That's why I decided to make a feature film in Poland, and with…

— Malgorzata Szumowska

The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply

— Luis Bunuel

My roots go back to West Africa, but my last name is Kirby, which is not an African name.

— Malachi Kirby

The Roots - we signed our first record deal when I was about 19 years old.

— Black Thought

If anyone ever asked my advice I'd say, 'go back to the roots and make your way up that way, rather than…

— Ashley Barnes

He [Bill Clinton] likes to hearken back to his kind of Irish roots, so I think he'd love to be called First…

— Chelsea Clinton

Nothing ever comes to an end. Wherever one has sunk roots that emanate from one's best or truest self, one will always…

— Liv Ullmann

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.

— Bruce Lee

We have very strong roots in Italy and we are committed to deepen these roots even more.

— Antoine Arnault

Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze, but as they sway they connect at the roots.

— Rumi