Roots Quotes

1850 Roots quotes by 1361 unique authors

There is something very wonderful about music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words… — Charles Kingsley
When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them… — Lee Greenwood
Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the… — Mike Royko
Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as… — Wallace Stegner
Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance. — Barbara Holland
I am a fan of today's sound as long as we don't get too slick, and yet I am very reverent of my roots. — Wynonna Judd
Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What… — Ursula K. Le Guin
In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have… — Gabriela Mistral
Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own… — William Irwin Thompson
At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives. — Robert Farrar Capon
Love has its roots in sex, but its foliage and flowers are in the pure light of spirit. — Salvador de Madariaga
Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public… — John McAfee
The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the… — Maureen Howard
Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory… — Paul Cezanne
No man beholds his mother's womb Yet who denies it's there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us… — Wole Soyinka
Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots. — Clarice Lispector
My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I know this? Because… — Georg Cantor
Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for… — Rene Descartes
I'm a big root beer guy. — Dylan O'Brien
I want to show how strong I am from my roots. — Edward James Olmos
Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk. — Will Oldham
[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and… — Gottfried Leibniz
Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become rationally explicable...Only something… — Dennis Prager
My cultural roots are something illusive. — Ang Lee

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