Roots Quotes
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The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits
Willie Dixon
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For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Being an American is a state of mind, and to be in a family is to feel the power of belonging, the power of your roots. Family is a tree, the strength of a tree, the roots, the leaves, the past and the present, the future, the fruits, the seeds.
Esai Morales
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The root of prayer is interior silence.
Thomas Keating
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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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Fear is the root of all courage.
Vivian Stanshall
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Ideas are the roots of creation.
Ernest Dimnet
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The stories strike a chord deep within us, ... They take us back home, back to our roots.
Bob Myers
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That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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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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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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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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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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Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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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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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
Wilt Chamberlain
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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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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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Civilization has its roots in the soil.
Charles Kellogg
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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
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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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Drawing is the root of everything.
Vincent Van Gogh
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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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Guess will always be loyal and true to its roots.
Paul Marciano