Roots Quotes
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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.
Alice Merton
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Linux doesn't have IP roots.
Darl McBride
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The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.
William Empson
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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.
T. Harv Eker
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
Isabel Allende
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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.
Vladimir Putin
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I'm very attached to my roots, but I feel Italian more than anything else.
Stephan El Shaarawy
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Live in your roots, not in your branches.
Nancy Willard
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I think if you forget your roots you're lost. It helps to ground you.
Chuck Panozzo Styx
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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.
T. Harv Eker
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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.
Dalai Lama
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My cultural roots are something illusive.
Ang Lee
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Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.
Agnes Meyer Driscoll
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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.
Seneca the Younger
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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.
William Stafford
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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.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Our life depends on others so much that at the root of our existence is a fundamental need for love. That is why it is good to cultivate an authentic sense of responsibility and concern for the welfare of others.
Dalai Lama
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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!
Toussaint Louverture
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Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more than the total weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Stephen Covey
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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.
Van Morrison
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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.
Miriam Makeba
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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.
William Tyndale
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God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.
Theodore Roethke
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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.
Barack Obama