Roots Quotes
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Marriage is honourable, as you say; and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root?
William Congreve
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The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.
Willie Dixon
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On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.
William Shakespeare
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People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.
E. V. Lucas
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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
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Let Pirelli's / Miracle Elixir / Activate your roots, sir... Keep it off your boots, sir- / Eats right through. Yes, get Pirelli's! / Use a bottle of it! / Ladies seem to love it... Flies do, too!
Stephen Sondheim
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I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.
Barbara Lynn
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
Cato the Younger
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If it was true that moss did not have roots, and maternal love could grow spontaneously, as if from nothing, perhaps I had been wrong to believe myself unfit to raise my daughter. Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.
Saib Tabrizi
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Break not an ancient friendship; keep it hale; Stir round its roots, that it be green of heart; Let not the spirit of its growth depart: It is a power to brave the strongest gale.
Joanne Rowling
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I never root for a failure. I learned that when we were on 'Felicity.' There was a show that failed on the lot, and suddenly all of this food showed up on our set. I was, like, 'What is this?' And they said, 'Oh, they cancelled this other show right before their lunch.' And I said, 'Throw that food away! We don't want to touch that food! There's no way I'm eating it!' So I never root for anybody, because it could happen to you in two seconds.
Jacquie O'Sullivan Bananarama
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In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providing hundreds of thousands of examples, specimens, and proofs of the supreme resurrection.
Said Nursi
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Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.
Alan Parsons
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People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.
Katee Sackhoff
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Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea...
Mick Taylor The Rolling Stones
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England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots.
Caitlin Thomas
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People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.
Haki R. Madhubuti
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There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk!
Lady Gregory
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The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.
C. S. Lewis
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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
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While the rest of the cable news world moved to opinion, CNN allowed me to stay true to my hard-news roots and supported me with a true commitment to old-school journalism.
Brown Campbell
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What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.
William P. Leahy