Roots Quotes

Pretty much every weekend, my wife and I have the shall-we-live-in-the-country conversation. I suppose it's something to do with getting older and feeling I want to shed some of the things I've been doing for the last 20 years and go back to my roots.
Andrew Motion

Wife, Feeling, Pretty

Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice.
Clive Anderson

Nice, Live, Together

I'm a very spiritual person, and proud of my Mormon roots.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Spiritual, Person, Proud

I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.
Jackson Browne

Peace, Sunday, Play

Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.
Christian Lous Lange

Life, Strength, Art

Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.
Jon Landau

Music, End, Black

I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish sporting roots... I am also a proud Ulsterman who grew up in Northern Ireland. That is my background and always will be.
Rory McIlroy

Rich, Proud, Union

The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years.
Bill Toomey

Society, Understand, Culture

During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change women's lives, we need to deal with those root causes.
Michelle Bachelet

Change, Women, Wanted

We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.
Brent Scowcroft

Lie, Find, Terrorism

You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time.
Bob Seger

Time, True, Try

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
Alex Haley

Family, Symbolic, Saga

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

Away, Secret, Themselves

The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.
Andrew Bird

Play, Start, Sound

Nobody roots for Goliath.
Wilt Chamberlain

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
Wilt Chamberlain

Everybody, Nobody, David

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Different, Living, Action

I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.
Rocco DiSpirito

Life, Family, Mother

I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
Patrick Wilson

School, Looking, High

I believe it is important for the university to always remember its roots.
Michael N. Castle

Important, Remember, University

Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.
Evan Bayh

Experience, Fun, Baseball

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.
George Weinberg

The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.
Ted Cruz

Single, Country, Leader

God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.
Theodore Roethke

God, Soul, Body

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

Real, Play, Stuff

I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do.
Emmylou Harris

True, Country, Worry

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.
John Millington Synge

Poetry, Strong, Among

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
Felix Adler

Cannot, Public, Virtue

It's easiest for me to be blonde because I'm naturally blonde; my roots are light enough that all I have to do is just highlight my hair every few months.
Jennifer Morrison

Enough, Light, Hair

When my hair was dark for 'House,' that was the hardest to maintain because it was like every three weeks my light roots would start coming in. And you can't really just dye your hair one color brown because then it looks like a helmet on television, so then I had to have four colors of brown woven into my hair every three weeks.
Jennifer Morrison

Dark, Light, Start

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