Roots Quotes

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

History, Knowledge, Past

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle

Education, Sweet, Bitter

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Dalai Lama

Lie, Goodness, Soil

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John F. Kennedy

Art, Society, Him

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

Change, Keep, Opinions

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Denis Waitley

Greatest, Children, Give

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
Frank A. Clark

Rain, Enough, Growth

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.
Oprah Winfrey

Down, Here, Knew

Storms make trees take deeper roots.
Dolly Parton

Storms, Trees, Deeper

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
Henry Ward Beecher

Best, Wisdom, Past

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

Woman, Control, Gun

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
Florence Nightingale

Small, Wonderful, Lose

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
Harry S. Truman

Past, Problems, Face

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

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

Faithful, Liberal, Stay

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

Goes, Genuine, Radical

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
Ansel Adams

Men, Fight, Human

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
Orson Welles

Christmas, Old, Off

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

Life, Love, Die

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Problems, Hacking, Leaves

I'm not a fighter, but in my mind I'm fighting every day. 'What's new? What am I doing?' I'm fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren't samurai, but my soul is.
Masaharu Morimoto

Mind, Soul, Fighting

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
Edward Steichen

Real, Light, Realize

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.
Henry Miller

Long, Black, Night

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.
George W. Bush

Religion, Patience, Strong

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
Hodding Carter

Hope, Children, Give

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
David Herbert Lawrence

Nature, Flower, Earth

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
Simone Weil

Thought, Christian, Cannot

I'm getting back to my old roots.
Tiger Woods

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
Harold Taylor

Best, True, Lie

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.
Doug Coupland

Two, Around, Earth

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