Roots Quotes
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I like to see people reaching back for the roots and for the reason why. Not intellectually, but just for the gut feeling of what it's all about.
Van Morrison
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I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.
Lois McMaster
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Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.
Henry Louis Gates
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I understand people want to hold on to their roots.
Mariah Carey
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I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.
Joseph Heller
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Civilization has its roots in the soil.
Charles Kellogg
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Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.
Eleanor Farjeon
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The root of prayer is interior silence.
Thomas Keating
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That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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If not for the Tea Party, the Republican Party would not be coming back to its roots.
Richard Mourdock
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Ideas are the roots of creation.
Ernest Dimnet
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It was an identity crisis. I was born and raised in France, but I never really felt French, so I needed to find something that I was more connected to. I used to go back to Tunisia every summer, but I was more into the language, my Arabic roots.
eL Seed
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The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible."---Each New Day.
Corrie Ten Boom
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When the Killers first came out, a lot of people thought we were English, and it touched a chord in me, because my roots are very American.
Brandon Flowers The Killers
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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
Wilt Chamberlain
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Land is the most necessary thing for establishing roots in Palestine. Since there are hardly any more arable unsettled lands. . . . we are bound in each case. . . to remove the peasants who cultivate the land.
Arthur Ruppin
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The fans in Canada have been there since day one. They're the originals. When people say that's your roots, that's literally my roots. I've just cut this tree off and replanted it somewhere else and it started growing, but the roots are still here.
Russell Peters
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Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
Harry S Truman
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Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
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Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?
Sara Gruen
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All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And that context, astounding even to bodily eyes, is the heaven of stars and the incredible procession of the great galaxies.
William Macneile Dixon
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The roots and herbes beaten and put into new ale or beer and daily drunk, cleareth, strengtheneth and quickeneth the sight of the eyes.
Nicholas Culpeper