Roots Quotes

1850 Roots quotes by 1361 unique authors

Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil. — Criss Jami
If you're a fan of American roots music, you won't want to miss 'Awake My Soul--The Story of the Sacred Harp.' Filmmakers Matt and Erica… — Eric Zorn
The assurance that we have no means of answering [final] questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them. The more deeply should we feel,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Break not an ancient friendship; keep it hale; Stir round its roots, that it be green of heart; Let not the spirit of its growth… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare… — Charles Lindbergh
Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the… — Bernard Baruch
Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty. — William John Locke
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root. — Charles Caleb Colton
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root. CHARLES… — Charles Caleb Colton
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure. — Charles de Gaulle
Another writer asserts that the tyranny of man over woman has its roots, after all, in his nobler feelings; his love, his chivalry, and his… — Susan B. Anthony
With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of altogether, if that… — James Madison
The most common music that you hear anywhere in the world now basically has its roots in that union that happened in the last century,… — David Byrne
I always thought that Seth [Rogen] was a fun, caustic, bombastic, sweet, underdog-type of person that I would root for the way you used to… — Judd Apatow
Most people don't relate to and can't generate concern for something they don't encounter personally or feel personally affected by. People have to have the… — Edward Norton
The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit. — Edward Norton
Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy,… — Ron Fournier
The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation. — Pope Francis
I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I like the liberal… — Al Franken
Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are… — Marilyn French
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. — Marcus Garvey
Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same. — Henry Louis Gates
I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared… — Henry Louis Gates
You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to...… — Henry Louis Gates
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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