Roots Quotes

The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.

As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.

I think everyone roots for the underdog.

I'm a very spiritual person and proud of my Mormon roots.

The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction films, and I think that gives me somewhat deeper roots.

I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.

The root of masculine is stronger, and of feminine weaker. The sun is a governing planet to certain planets, while the moon borrows her light from the sun, and is less or weaker.

Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It's the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning.

I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.

My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.

A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.

It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding.

My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock...whatever you want to call it is OK with me.

People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.

My roots are Scottish. My dad's parents are from Scotland, and my mum's dad is Scots.

The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the very roots of its belief in justice and humanity.

Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not in the base earth.

Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?

I have deep comedic roots, and I want to be funny.

Yes, for me audio-visual performance has its roots in my experience working as an improvising musician and composer.

The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.

Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune.

Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root.

In lightness the root is lost. In haste the ruler is lost.

I am a strong believer in grass roots communities, but I also believe government resources, when available, should be equally available to all people.

marriages do not take root in the presence of witnesses but only in the consciousness of the persons involved.

Fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.

I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.

I want to take IBM back to its roots.

Prayer is a ritual! But at the root of prayer is the idea of complete bowing down in submission to the Will of God.

Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath.

I believe I've put forth a tiny soul-root into Kingsport soil this afternoon. I hope so. I hate to feel transplanted.

The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing.

Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love.

He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

It is my conviction that the root of evil is the want of a living God.

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light.

I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.

The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

I feel sorry for anyone that I am obsessed with. I am worse than gum in your hair, very, very close to the roots.

I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots.

I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

If we look at the complexity of the challenges facing western societies today, we see that the problems are not really about outsiders, but have their roots much closer to home.

The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress

pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet.

I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.

I always root for the bad guy and I don't think you have a great movie without a great villain.

What miracle is this? This giant tree. It stands ten thousand feet high But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands. Its roots must hold the sky.