A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
Walter Salles

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.
Jose Marti

A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.
Maynard James Keenan

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus Garvey

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
Ivan Turgenev

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.
Duncan Sheik

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.
Roy Jenkins

A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
Raj Kapoor

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
Larry Elder

After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.
Ellen Tauscher

All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West.
James Norman Hall

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
Saint Teresa of Avila

And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And I thought I can't be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore.
Sela Ward

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'
Mason Cooley

Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.
Francois Gautier

But a lot of my training can be done in Aston - a lot of the hard work, so to speak. But a new atmosphere, a new place, and it's good for me because I didn't want to get stuck in one spot, so coming home is good, back and forth, you know, where my roots are.
Elvis Stojko

But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain.
Theodor Herzl

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Victor Hugo

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.
Juliette Binoche