Roots Quotes
1850 Roots quotes by 1361 unique authors
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Temple mirrors of eternity remind us that each human being has "divine nature and destiny"; that "sacred ordinances and covenants available in holy temples make…
— Gerrit W. Gong
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Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid…
— Freya Stark
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In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative life and the…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them…
— Geezer Butler
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The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense…
— May Swenson
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Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Taking on all at once Germany, Japan, and Italy - diverse enemies all - did not require the weeding out of all the fascists and…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
— Leon Trotsky
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Meaningful relationships are worth more than hundred-dollar trees, and they deserve all the time, effort, and energy they need to become strong and beautiful. Then,…
— Lloyd D. Newell
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Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea
— Mick Taylor
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We dare not forget, lest we become a nation that does not only not know its roots but where it’s going
— Mzwakhe Mbuli
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The root of great companies is make meaning vs. make money.
— Guy Kawasaki
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My roots are in my record player.
— Evan Parker
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After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the…
— Ellen Tauscher
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If you don't root for the Dodgers, you might not get into heaven,
— Tommy Lasorda
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One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility.…
— Haruki Murakami
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I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to…
— David Frum
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The more you are called to speak for God's love, the more you will need to deepen the knowledge of that love in your own…
— Henri Nouwen
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The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only one root-idea of a…
— Albert J. Nock
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I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk…
— Bela Fleck
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Fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.
— Lloyd Bentsen
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I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots
— Smokey Robinson
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Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots
— Smokey Robinson
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time has…
— I. M. Pei
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All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West.
— James Norman Hall
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