Roots Quotes

1850 Roots quotes by 1361 unique authors

It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the… — Simone Weil
We need the stars... We need purpose! We need the image the Destiny to take root among the stars gives us of ourselves as a… — Octavia Butler
Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is… — Richard Saul Wurman
Being a singer is not just for popularity, it is more like cheering people's hearts and never forget my root. — Kim Kyu-jong
When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots. — Wanda Sykes
Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know everything, I had… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Because I had my family, I felt like I could be a bird and fly and experience and do. Because I had roots somewhere, I… — Gisele Bundchen
I’m a very spiritual person and proud of my Mormon roots, — Jon Huntsman, Jr.
In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.' She is the… — Meinrad Craighead
What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It… — Tullian Tchividjian
Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a… — Archie Shepp
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they… — Charles Caleb Colton
They grow in layers, like the spirit does. That's what Grandpa Sam used to say, anyway. You just got to keep the roots in a… — James Lee
I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I… — Bharati Mukherjee
Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually… — Donald Knuth
I feel very proud to be Mexican. I didn't have the opportunity to learn Spanish when I was a girl, but ... it's never too… — Selena
If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can come up with,… — Bob Torres
Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work. — Pablo Antonio Cuadra
You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain… — Jason Gann
I always root for the defense. — Wellington Mara
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 it wrapped around… — Erin McCarthy
Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
At the root of fear is low self-esteem. This explains why angry people have low self-esteem, are argumentative, stubborn, and quick to flare up yet… — David J. Lieberman
Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
We are faced with having to learn again about interdependency and the need for rootedness after several centuries of having systematically-and proudly-dismantled our roots, ties,… — Paul L Wachtel

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