Roots Quotes
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Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.
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In other states, they're passionate; they're not embarrassed by their agricultural roots.
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Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.
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What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.
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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.
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I started talking about things that everybody could relate to. And that's not to say I deserted my roots, I just found a way to talk about things in a broad way.
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Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
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Every time someone asks me where I'm from, I'm not sure how to answer that question... so I say I have no roots.
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England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots.
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It's not like if I play in big places I won't be happy. But I don't want to start adapting to what's in style to make my music. I want to stay true to my roots, to keep making the music I love, that comes from my soul. And if there are people who want to listen to it, I'm happy.
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I've always been a bit of a lost soul, and I think that goes back to me being adopted and not knowing my roots.
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Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where.
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The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.
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Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work.
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Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.
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The history, the root, the strength of my father is the strength we now rest on.
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If your motivation for acquiring money or success comes from a non-supportive root such as fear, anger or the need to 'prove' yourself, your money will never bring you happiness.
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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.
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Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.
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If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.
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Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.
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No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.
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States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them...
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I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
