Roots Quotes · Page 39

I have a huge appreciation for music in general, but my roots are country.

— Kelsea Ballerini

There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion.

— Anne Nicol Gaylor

I still dabble in different types of music, but I'm sticking to my Country roots.

— Morgan Wallen

dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.

— John Green

I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree.

— John Burroughs

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

— Carl Jung

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

— Ray Charles

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest…

— Sarah Ruhl

We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain. We do not remember the red roots whence we rose, but…

— Conrad Aiken

I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I…

— Swami Vivekananda

The root of all our personal and emotional difficulties is a lack of togetherness... I therefore believe that the surest route to…

— Larry Crabb

I never think there's any competition between films. I root for everybody's films. I especially have a fond place in my heart…

— Bruce Willis

I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my…

— Celine Dion

My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous…

— Marie Lu

Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots…

— Katherine Cecil Thurston

Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk community. I saw people…

— Benjamin Booker

I'm anti-establishment. So all the labels, the reason that I keep joking and rejecting this idea that I'm liberal, well partly that's…

— Bill Ayers

“Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the…

— Sheri S. Tepper

I reached the age of 70, because I have cultivated an association of multicultural intellectuals who are informed and alert to whatever…

— Ishmael Reed

People who have been wronged will attempt to right the wrong; they would not be people if they didn't. They can rarely…

— James A. Baldwin

I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must…

— Henry David Thoreau

More than any other place, New York is where I felt I belonged. I prefer the Lower East Side to any place…

— Jeff Buckley

With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will…

— Anonymous

“If you get too attached to your roots in the old sense, you might actually become unrooted, fossilized. At least in form,…

— V.S. Naipaul

“The only people who make any sense in the world are those who know that whatever happens to them has its roots…

— Robertson Davies

Faith is a principle which hath its root deeper feeling. We believe, whether we see or not.

— Charles Spurgeon

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.

— Henry Louis Gates

You are the root of heaven, the morning star, the bright moon, the house of endless Love

— Rumi

Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves.

— Confucius

Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that…

— Roger Waters

He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!

— Archibald MacLeish

I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.

— Anonymous

Money Is The Root Of All Evil I Thought…But When Im Broke Is Usually When I Have The Evilest Thoughts

— Fabolous

The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.

— Maya Angelou

Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been…

— Jonas Salk

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.

— Malcolm X

Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.

— Brian Tracy

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.

— George Eliot