Roots Quotes

I always give one actor an emotion to make it very easy so he or she can root to it.

Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance.

And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot.

The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.

Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality.

I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things.

Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.

With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.

That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.

We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.

This is certainly the raunchiest, if you use that word, raunchy. The roots of Jim Henson, though, was adult comedy.

There are still personalities that you bond with or a fighting spirit that you connect with, but as a host you have to stay impartial and root for all of them.

One of the things that really intrigued us the most about the whole Wonder Woman mythology is the actual mythology of it. Her character has distinct roots in classic Greek mythology.

I never think there's any competition between films. I root for everybody's films. I especially have a fond place in my heart for graphic novels and comics.

Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.

Asia's culture has planted its roots all over the world, and also has roots in my personal culture.

The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.

It is curious that the leaf should so love the light and the root so hate it.

I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me.

If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities appear to be unbounded.

There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.

He [Bill Clinton] likes to hearken back to his kind of Irish roots, so I think he'd love to be called First Laddy.

I grew up watching classic animation, and I have always felt that the roots of animation is in fantasy and taking it in places that you can't go, any other way.

Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil

Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.

Root of a tree, fruit of a vine, let me pass by this blood of mine.

I think if you forget your roots you're lost. It helps to ground you.

We're here to let the Democrats know that the grass roots and the anti-war movement elected them to create change.

I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people where I'm from.

I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it has a goddess, very visual, the music.

We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain. We do not remember the red roots whence we rose, but we know that we rose and walked, that after a while we shall lie down again.

I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.

But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.

At this point, I feel like I have roots in a lot of places. I have friends who have put down roots, in Seattle and San Francisco and Portland, and I feel very close to them.

Linux doesn't have IP roots.

Choices are at the root of every one of your results.

We have our roots in country, and that's our foundation, but we pull from a lot.

Sturdy gospel roots that go deep into rich spiritual soil strengthen and steady us in times of trial and difficulty.

I'll never forget where I'm from, never forget my roots. It doesn't matter where I live. I'm English, simple as that.

"To coach" comes from the root meaning "to bring a person from where they are to where they want to be."

The outlaw is the radical, the one close to the roots of existence. The one who refuses to forget their humanity and, in remembering, helps everyone else remember, too.

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

When I am at rodeo I find it difficult not to root for the animals.

One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

Italian style for me is to have a sense of tradition, respect for one's roots, and a sartorial approach.

Freedom has its roots in religion.

There are actors who just bring an enormous amount of empathy. They just have that"it" that makes you want to follow them and root for them.