Charles Kellogg Quotes

Civilization has its roots in the soil.

Charles Kellogg

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

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Up
  • You
  • Fly

• 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
  • Fall
  • Tree
  • Christmas

• You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Hate
  • Tree
  • Roots

• Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Freedom
  • Tree
  • Soil

• I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Music
  • Father
  • Roots

• As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of our folk arts. We can do this if we are true to our roots and strive for excellence.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Up
  • True
  • Down

• We mustn't hesitate to cut corruption at its roots.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Roots
  • Corruption
  • Cut

• I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Question
  • Simple
  • Thought

• Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Age
  • Body
  • Civilization

• A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Air
  • Daily
  • Civilization

• I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Roots

• I always thought if I had a band it would have the energy and feel of early Police, since that's where my roots are, and then the harmonies of the Eagles, and the technique of King Crimson or something like that. Fast, up-tempo, beat-the-hell-out-of-the-drums, because that's my style. Energy, but sophistication, rhythmically and melodically.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Band

• A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Civilization
  • Possible

• We Jews have been too adaptable. We have been too eager to sacrifice our idiosyncrasies for the sake of social conformity. … Even in modern civilization, the Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Sacrifice
  • Civilization
  • Jews

• Country music artists are staying true to their roots, keeping it country but throwing a little bit of rock flair in there which I think is a good thing.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Good
  • Music
  • Country

• It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • Society
  • Civilization

• Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Speak
  • Love Is

• Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed it is. California, for several generations now, has been the newest, biggest, most experimental place in the newest, biggest, most experimental part of liberal Western capitalism - which is itself a new experiment for mankind.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • America
  • California

• Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.

  

  William Dean Howells
  • Gun
  • Civilization
  • Blessing

• Sophie's hard first question to the cards had not, precisely, gone without an answer, it had been transmuted into questions about the question. It had branched and rooted like a tree, growing questions like buds, and then at some moment all the questions had become one question: what tree is this?

  

  John Crowley
  • Growing
  • Question
  • Tree

• The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Truth

• He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.

  

  Confucius
  • Man
  • Courageous
  • Desponds

• Civilization has its roots in the soil.

  

  Charles Kellogg
  • Civilization
  • Roots
  • Soil