Roots Quotes

Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.

3. It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is.

You've got to have a likeability factor, I think, in your comedy characters. If the guy's really, really funny but you just don't like him or her, then you're never going to root for them.

Our [American] leaders are so socialized as to address militarized threats by acting on the basis of a militarized mentality that the deep roots of problems are ignored.

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

Selfishness is the root of great evil.

If not for the Tea Party, the Republican Party would not be coming back to its roots.

When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.

There are moments when we have to return to our roots.

I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie.

I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.

At times, Singer Johnny Cash rubbed dirt from the earth under his fingernails in order to avoid any arrogance which might stem from his fame, by reminding himself of his roots and origins.

Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root!

I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.

Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away.

What you have to do if you are going to treat any disease is get to the root of the disease.

Money should never be separated from values. Detached from values it may indeed be the root of all evil. Linked effectively to social purpose it can be the root of opportunity.

That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.

Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.

English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

...great feeling of enthusiasm..this human component began to fade away, leaving only that supernatural enthusisam which must always be at the root of our perseverance.

A digging fork is a stout, short-handled tool with four flat tines about a foot long.... for weeding I use it delicately to nudge the soil loose from roots without breaking them.

Jared Kushner has sort of betrayed the Democratic roots that his family grew up in.

Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.

I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country.

There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder!

A heart's a heart, in a child or a man. You are tougher than you feel right now. Your roots are deep, your canopy's spread wide. You're going to show everyone what it means to be a king.

The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind.

I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.

Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.’ (Talon)

Poetry has roots, and sometimes they are aerial. Sometimes they are buried.

Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.

Bjork is one of my oldest friends so we share the friendship and common roots. That is what we build on when we work together.

I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots

The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.

I am trying to stay away from this position of me "returning to my roots." As if my roots are that I'm only comfortable working on low-budget, small films. That's not the case at all.

I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.

America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.

I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing

My Hamlet was about as alienated as you can get. Mine was a bitter and lonely prince. Valid, I think, but maybe tough to root for. I think that romance was missing.

I don't think it had a name when we started. If punk has any roots, Dada is part of it. And we saw ourselves as part of a kind of Dada tradition.

If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there's a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.

[Allied] meant to be a film that's a bit different. It's roots are in the '40s and '50s, and that sort of filmmaking style.

No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error.

impulses sometimes have logical roots and ought to be given in to.

The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.

Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.