Quotes about roots
roots slave-ships envy
You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. Henry Louis Gates
roots religion enthusiasm
Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits; a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows. Henri Frederic Amiel
roots long miracle
So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and a 'modern miracle.' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics-that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world-that is a different matter! Helen Keller
roots fascists asks
Nobody can ask us to abjure our fascist roots. Gianfranco Fini
roots doe culture
Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things. James Freeman Clarke
roots unity desire
Amid all change, we desire something permanent; amid all variety, something stable; amid all progress, some central unity of life; something which deepens as we ascend; which roots itself as we advance; which grows more and more tenacious of the old, while becoming more and more open to the new.
roots long tree
If thou hadst thy will what wouldst thou reserve?" said Manwe. "Of all thy realm what dost thou hold dearest?" All have their worth," said Yavanna, "and each contributes to the worth of the others. But the kelvar can flee or defend themselves, whereas the olvar that grow cannot. And among these I hold trees dear. Long in the growing, swift shall they be in the felling, and unless they pay toll with fruit upon their bough little mourned in their passing. So I see in my thought, would that the trees might speak on behalf of all things that have roots, and punish those that wrong them! J. R. R. Tolkien
roots tree mountain
What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain.
roots people nerves
When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people. Jennifer Hudson
roots parent way
Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central root in France. I feel French but in a few ways, not at all French. Jean Reno
roots next-level levels
What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the next levels, including also the scientific knowledge. Jean Piaget
roots people worry
At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people. Jeffrey Kluger
roots century made
Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.
roots creating water
People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water. James A. Baldwin
roots levels lockers
You have to know what's happening in the locker rooms, you have to know what's happening at the grass-roots level. That's the best way to work. Jacques Rogge
roots way would-be
I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots. Jack Wild
roots needs
Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots. Christopher Lasch
roots together bigs
I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact - those are my roots, professionally. Chris Noth
roots imagination
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love. Gilbert Parker
roots tree heaven
The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell. Friedrich Nietzsche
roots space stories
When we let ourselves respond to poetry, to music, to pictures, we are clearing a space where new stories can root, in effect we are clearing a space for new stories about ourselves. Jeanette Winterson
roots kung-fu-panda wish
Po's [Kung Fu Panda] unending enthusiasm is something we wish we could have. We can't help but root for him because of his geek energy. Jennifer Yuh Nelson
roots curves tree
A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?
roots way classic
I grew up watching classic animation, and I have always felt that the roots of animation is in fantasy and taking it in places that you can't go, any other way. Chris Wedge
roots evil long
The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil. George Orwell
roots evil enough
The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money. Gene Simmons
roots bullshit evil
There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.
roots fruit virtue
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. Felix Adler
roots forever forbearance
Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever. Ieyasu Tokugawa
roots evil frustrated
It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possess neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like fungus on the surface. It is “thought-defying,” as I said, because thought tries to reach some depth, to go to the roots, and the moment it concerns itself with evil, it is frustrated because there is nothing. That is its “banality.” Only the good has depth and can be radical. Hannah Arendt
roots growth weak
Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.
roots virtue economy
The love of economy is the root of all virtue. George Bernard Shaw
roots san
That's where my roots were San Luis Obispo.