Roots Quotes
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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 -
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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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 -
I go stay a week in these little towns that don't have an art outlet and... go to the schools and play some of the old Texas music, sort of 'go through the Texas country roots' is what they call it.
Johnny Gimble -
I've been working a lot with identity and roots, being part of your roots. I went into this topic where I was trying to break the stereotype of Arabic language. The non-translation work, this is where I make the switch, where you don't need to translate.
eL Seed -
[The] Hopi earth does contain my roots and I am, indeed, from that land. Because the roots are there, I will find them. But when I find them, [my father] said, I must rebuild myself as a Hopi. I am not merely a conduit, but a participant. I am not a victim, but a woman.
Wendy Rose -
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 -
Secrets...are the very root of cool.
William Gibson
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The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.
Willie Dixon -
Linux doesn't have IP roots.
Darl McBride -
The stories strike a chord deep within us, ... They take us back home, back to our roots.
Bob Myers -
Being the governor of a state is a more pivotal job in the future. I do indeed hope there's someone that says, "I'm going to go to Washington, try to get back to our constitutional roots, devolve the centralization of government back to the states." So why would you want to be up there if the action is down here in the states?
Rick Perry -
It is because my roots are so strong that I can fly.
Mira Nair -
Civilization has its roots in the soil.
Charles Kellogg
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The roots of my music start from the ghetto.
Ziggy Marley -
Fear is the root of all courage.
Vivian Stanshall -
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 -
I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's the root of it all, sleight-of-hand. It's certainly the thing I feel most comfortable with.
Ricky Jay -
You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.
William P. Young -
I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.
George Shearing
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God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.
Theodore Roethke -
Ideas are the roots of creation.
Ernest Dimnet -
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 -
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
Miguel de Unamuno