Roots Quotes
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The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.
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Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.
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The stories strike a chord deep within us, ... They take us back home, back to our roots.
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Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.
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That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.
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Drawing is the root of everything.
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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.
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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.
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Secrets...are the very root of cool.
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If not for the Tea Party, the Republican Party would not be coming back to its roots.
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Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.
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I understand people want to hold on to their roots.
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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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Fear is the root of all courage.
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Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
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Ideas are the roots of creation.
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Civilization has its roots in the soil.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.
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God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.
