The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.
Alva Myrdal

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

The first thing I feel like we have the potential to do is to deliver to consumers more roots to their home.
Michael K. Powell

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

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
Jello Biafra

The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.
Peter Davison

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

The roots of Cuban music are in my head.
Compay Segundo

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

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

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
Sargent Shriver

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

The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.
John Oates

The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity.
Patricia Ireland

There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.
Stephen Carter

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

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots, the other is wings.
Hodding Carter

They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history.
John Amos

This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle.
Robert Fortune

This type of gathering is unprecedented. The time has come for Christians to publicly affirm our Jewish roots, distinctions and oneness in Jesus Christ.
Bill McCartney