Roots Quotes
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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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The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.
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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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I think if you forget your roots you're lost. It helps to ground you.
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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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Live in your roots, not in your branches.
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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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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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My cultural roots are something illusive.
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
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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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I'm very attached to my roots, but I feel Italian more than anything else.
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God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.
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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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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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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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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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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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Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
