Roots Quotes

she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock

I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical.

Cancel me not - for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The inverse of my verse, a null domain.

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them.

It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.

Some things take root in the brain and just don’t let go.

Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time.

Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.

Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots

Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time

It is 60 years since the restoration of diplomatic relations, but relations between Japan and Russia have much deeper roots. In all, our diplomatic ties date back 150 years, more than 150 years now.

People can't see your root system, but God can. Praying and meditating on the Word of God will cause your roots to go down deep into His love.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.

Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.

Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness, tranquillity, and prosperity.

I’d be glad to go out on a limb with those Who want nothing beyond what the wind bestows, Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bear Never being done grasping for light and air

Let's not grow with our roots in the ground.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.

Home's where you go when you run out of homes.

Square root of a cosine? How is that ever going to be useful?

I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz, but the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC.

I didn't truly understand the depth of my roots until I was old enough to wonder and care.

How do the stems connect to the roots?' 'Where is the mist coming from?' 'Why does one tree seem darker than another?' These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

I love LA, but we don't really have beautiful natural things to look at. I just want to be in nature and go back to my roots and just see beautiful things, that's really all I want.

It is only necessary to destroy in oneself the roots of those motives which determine a man's course, in order to enjoy the omnipotence and immunity of a god.

The mind is complicated and you can't trace the roots of its processes, but there is something about mathematical and algorithmic patterns that I like to recognize in things.

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 branches ought to produce.

Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities of direct democracy are therefore becoming more topical

Our loss put six feet under ground Is measured by the magnolia's root; Our gain's the intellectual sound Of death's feet round a weedy tomb.

Your roots, your family, your friends all become so much more important to you as you get older, especially if you are a wandering minstrel like me.

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.

The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.

Whenever I watch the beginning of Jimmy Fallon, I feel like I should sue the Roots for bait and switch.

My cultural roots are something illusive.

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.

We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.

It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.

The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!

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 whole.

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.

There is something democratic about grass-roots, widespread money support. There is something anti-democratic about one person propping up a candidate who can't make it.

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name-- I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure is the flow'r.

Money is the root of all good.

I decided to become a community organizer ... Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.