Roots Quotes · Page 36

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

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

— Anne Enright

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

— Mzwakhe Mbuli

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

— Wes Streeting

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

— Stuart Sherman

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

— Samuel Smiles

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

— Mary Louisa Molesworth

In the dark I rest, unready for the light which dawns day after day, eager to be shared. Black silk, shelter me.…

— Denise Levertov

I'm not into branding - I'm trying to be organic to who I am on every level. I do really connect to…

— Nelly Furtado

The other guys, all they have to do is use their big butts and big python arms to hit homers. Me, I'm…

— Ken Griffey, Jr

The english word thanks comes from the same root word as think. Maybe if leaders were more 'think-ful' about the contribution of…

— John C. Maxwell

When I'm creating a song, I'm thinking of a hip-hop beat playing on a live drum set - kinda like the Roots…

— Trombone Shorty

It is true that the Internet can be used to disseminate falsehoods quickly, but it just as quickly roots them out and…

— Glenn Greenwald

I'm half Egyptian, and I'm Muslim. But I grew up in Canada, far from my Arab roots. Like so many who straddle…

— Shereen El Feki

My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else…

— John Prescott

Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a…

— James F. Cooper

The only form of revolution beneficial to the people is one which destroys the entire state to the roots and exterminates all…

— Sergey Nechayev

Off pitch, I keep things simple. I enjoy spending time with my family. I never forget my roots and regularly give back…

— Yaya Toure

However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem…

— Wendell Berry

I don't dye my hair. It's so fabulous. I had brown hair for so long. I was always getting my roots done.…

— Maye Musk

We must be able to appreciate and enjoy the places where we tarry and yet pass on without anguish when we are…

— Peace Pilgrim

Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the…

— Samuel R. Delany

Love, as the poet says, is like the spring. It grows on you and seduces you slowly and gently, but it holds…

— Walter Mosley

“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

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

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Thomas Paine

Square Roots creates campuses of climate-controlled, indoor, hydroponic vertical farms, right in the hearts of our biggest cities.

— Kimbal Musk

It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.

— Ann Brashares

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Max Muller

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

— Adrian Rogers