Roots Quotes

The point for me is people who are atheists or are coming from different religious traditions; they are coming from their own sources and specific roots. We should analyze these.

You cannot build a grass-roots campaign unless you are connecting with people.

To earn the support of grass-roots activists, you have to spend real time, looking them in the eyes, answering their questions. Part of it is also you have to have a message that inspires people.

I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.

Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.

It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.

The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom.

I agree with Clyde Wilson that America can’t be saved or returned to its roots until the Republican Party is destroyed.

A tree root won't get into your sewer line unless there's something already wrong with your sewer line. I know most people don't want to hear that, but it's true

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.

I'm getting back to my old roots.

Fear and ignorance are the key roots to racism.

I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home.

There's all sorts of things I was always meaning to get around to - learning to play the flute, calculating the square root of nought, going mad - but I just didn't have the time.

People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots.

We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.

What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.

It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.

I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.

Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean, who doesn't like to watch a nice gory murder film on TV?

Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making.

I technically live in the desert - Los Angeles being an artificial oasis - but my interest stems even farther to my own ethnic roots and to my love of antiquity, of the Old World and of the east.

The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.

The bureaucracy has grown such powerful roots in Russia, and corruption is so widespread, that people from opposition have no interest in changing anything.

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They're so hard to pull. And grow back so easily.

From a family tree that has healthy roots, there emerge hearty leaves and most beautiful fruits.

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity can help too.

Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body to the spade Or grope with a dirty hand.

Where the world ends The mind is made unchanging, for it finds Miracle, ecstasy, the impossible hope, The flagstone under all, the fire of fires, The roots of the world.

Marriage is honourable, as you say; and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root?

Our love is principle, and has its root In reason, is judicious, manly, free.

Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.

War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.

Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.

. . . it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself it is needful that you frame the season of your own harvest.

The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.

After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.

Love people who hate you and their hatred won’t get grounds to gain roots.

A wise person knows that he should not allow his roots to grow too deep in this world, for the deeper they grow here, the shallower they become in spirituality.

Dig deep & pull the roots of confidence from the ground of your being, standing firm in the raging storm until sunlight blossoms inside you.

Focus on faith and grow your roots strong and deep so no one can make you believe in something that is not good for your soul.

There is much that I do not know and I'd like to know even less.

One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God.

A ministry gives us the opportunity to establish roots

It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree’s greatest strength lies.

Especially at a time when one's life was new, roots helped.

Just as trees need roots in the earth, man is also a tree and needs roots in existence or else he will live a very unintelligent life.

Digging through my roots to understand the way my branches grew.