Quotes about roots
roots fruit
The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits. Willie Dixon
roots american-music
The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.
roots dirt
The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty. Virginia Woolf
roots charity good-work
Charity is the root of all good works. Saint Augustine
roots people listening
Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk. Will Oldham
roots heaven humanity
There is a saying that Heaven is internal, humanity external and Virtue comes from the Heavenly. Know Heaven and humanity's actions, root yourself in Heaven and follow Virture.Then you can bend, stretch, rush forward or hold back, because you will always return to the core and it will be said you have achieved the supreme. Zhuangzi
roots silence action
Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
roots sight forget-you
If you forget your roots, you've lost sight of everything Walter Payton
roots drawing
Drawing is the root of everything. Vincent Van Gogh
roots defense
I always root for the defense.
roots long grows
Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly Wallace Stegner
roots language english-language
English, no longer, an English language, now grows from many roots. Salman Rushdie
roots
When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots. Wanda Sykes
roots government add
The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases. Josiah Stamp
roots ego plant
The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it. Ramana Maharshi
roots perspective goodness
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. Ralph Waldo Emerson
roots tough-times desolate
When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them through the tough times. Lee Greenwood
roots actors branches
In the Twenties, it wasn't a remarkable thing for a singer to be an actor, or even to be involved in politics. If this is our roots, how can you blame the branches for following the course of the roots. Terrence Howard
roots bird tree
My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African. Teresa Heinz
roots feelings stories
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. Ted Naifeh
roots intellectual facts
Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.
roots design months
Designing a tour is a daily thing. I work on it every day for several months. I’m involved with every department, from lighting, sound, music direction, the visual direction. The set list is something I create myself and that’s the root of everything Shania Twain
roots choices affection
Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root! Robert Southey
roots swamps american-english
That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp. Roy Blount, Jr.
roots world care
I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform. Swami Vivekananda
roots way reform
We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way. Tony Abbott
roots use branches
What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform. Tony Blair
roots rooted
Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others. Simone Weil
roots modern-life demand
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful. Thomas Merton
roots heaven might
If you don't root for the Dodgers, you might not get into heaven, Tommy Lasorda
roots knowing design
Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history. Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertent plagiarism. Steven Heller
roots people hatred
There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most pernicious thing, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself." "With words. Steven Erikson
roots trying film
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. Spike Lee