Roots Quotes
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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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I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.
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I think if you forget your roots you're lost. It helps to ground you.
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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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The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.
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Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.
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Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.
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Live in your roots, not in your branches.
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I'm very attached to my roots, but I feel Italian more than anything else.
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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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A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.
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God's goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness.
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I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising.
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
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They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!
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That's when America soars, when we look out for one another and we take care of each other, when we root for one another's success, when we strive to do better and to be better than the generation that came before us and try to build something better for generations to come, that's why we do what we do. That's the whole point of public service.
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God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.
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He's just a great guy. He's so humble. You're very proud of the fact that his roots are here in Boise, not just Timberline High School. He's classy in the way he carries himself.
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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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When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.
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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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My cultural roots are something illusive.
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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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Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance climbed up through my conscious mind as if suddenly the roots I had left behind cried out to me, the land I had lost with my childhood - and I stopped, wounded by the wandering scent.
