Roots Quotes

It's better to embrace your roots than it is to fight it, because then you're just fighting something that you're not going to win. We're like a band of gypsies, and it makes sense.

I really consider myself a Californian, but I have those great comedic roots in Brooklyn.

The seeds that we speed into life to be trees, will soon become fallen if thier roots aren't deep.

I can't root for Jimmie Johnson to win the Nextel Cup b/c of all of his Super Bowl wins.

At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the last-ditch aristocrats of Evelyn Waugh.

Every faith has its story; every faith has its roots.

He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable.

True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.

We no longer have roots, we have aerials.

People in the UK will say that the design community in the US is much more coherent than other countries. It has no government support at all, so it's really like a grass roots thing.

I believe it is important for the university to always remember its roots.

I'm interested in a lot of the languages that drive our culture. I'm interested in user experience as language or how societal malaise takes root.

Country music... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak.

You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots.

It’s hard not to root for Henrik Lundqvist, he’s practically perfect.

loneliness has its roots in words,in internal conversation that nodbody answers,solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.

Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've always loved music, and my dad is a singer-songwriter.

My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.

My roots were pretty far removed from high income. It's interesting to be back there at the level of income I have now, at this stage in my life.

[I like to cook] Shepherd's pie, which is a classic British dish. But my version reflects my Jamaican roots, because I add jerk to it as well.

The root of democracy is in mass education. This foundation becomes stronger, when the citizens of tomorrow, our children are also educated about the electoral process.

Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.

I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy.

Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.

I came out of independent film, that's my roots.

I came out of independent film, that's my roots. I used my independent film as a laboratory, and used what I could discover in that laboratory.

All the religions have deviated from its roots, and the main thing was that you must have your Realization, you must have your Spirit. Once you become the Spirit then you understand the religion.

Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.

We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.

Compromise is low class. I don't have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil

I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.

Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply.

When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.

The word 'question' is derived from the Latin quaerere 'to seek,' which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions are useful guides.

I think that the most exciting thing is to find a tool, like an art, with an opportunity to share. Real roots come from everywhere in the world. Why call is congress? Because it is a congress.

The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.

Every small problem most likely stems from the same root as large problems, and so there is no need to always go deep. One can use anything for the therapeutic process and/if this link is made.

It seems that 'national security' is the root password to the Constitution. As with any dishonest superuser, the best countermeasure is strong encryption.

Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future.

These are roots of all evil, hatred and greed, for money, for the construction and for the sale of weapons. This should make us all think, who is behind it all?

I think all of this—The Roots and DJing included—was meant to prepare me for The Tonight Show.

... women have their roots in the ground, and often those roots are starved and ravaged, yet there is not a human alive who cannot reach and touch, with... her fingers, the very top of God's rainbow.

Most black families have roots, whether Christian, Muslim or other religions, and that journey is unique for each individual.

Industry is the root of all ugliness.

Many of us refuse to grow where we are put; consequently, we take root nowhere.

He who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil.

Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write?

There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you.

Thinking goes on in your head. It is not really deep into the roots of your being; it is not your totality.