Roots Quotes

To succeed, we have to be the party of change, we have to root out corruption in our own ranks and we have to be the party of solutions.

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

The history, the root, the strength of my father is the strength we now rest on.

A non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet.

I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.

Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.

I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.

If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification.

Homophobia is very, very difficult to root out, to extricate. That's why we have to bear witness. That's why we have to be so public about it, and that's why we can't just play footsie with it.

Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of can we presume to look at the larger questions.

There is nothing new... everything has roots in the past.

Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy.

Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery.

Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.

I paint a tree - I think of how the roots go deep, deep into the earth. How the tree grows year by year toward the sky. How it stands with the winds.

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following

Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy.

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and may even sprout again.

I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do.

Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.

Is the square root of hate the same thing as love times love?

My roots are in my record player.

In Bolivia, the middle class, intellectuals and the self-employed are proud of their Indian roots. Unfortunately, some oligarchic groups continue to treat us as being inferior.

[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel the sap rise to its spreading branches. I feel in my toes how its roots grip the earth.

Storms make oaks take deeper root.

Within its gates I heard the sound Of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought To whisper what their roots had found. (“A Dream of Fear”)

So we took out those 3 root canals when she had 3-6 months to live. And that was 6 years ago, and she is still alive today, and MRI can't find the tumour anymore. It went away.

If you had one word to describe the root of all this rage, it's humiliation.

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

Trees have roots, Jews have legs.

Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus.

The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans - but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.

Country music artists are staying true to their roots, keeping it country but throwing a little bit of rock flair in there which I think is a good thing.

Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].

I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.

- Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer again. As long as the roots are not severed, all is well and all be well.

To get the adrenaline pumping between events - or to help me switch off, Jay Z, the Roots and Drake are on my playlist.

Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.

Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.

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