Roots Quotes
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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.
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The root of prayer is interior silence.
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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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The stories strike a chord deep within us, ... They take us back home, back to our roots.
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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
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Ideas are the roots of creation.
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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.
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Fear is the root of all courage.
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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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God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.
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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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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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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.
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That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.
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Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.
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Civilization has its roots in the soil.
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Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
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The roots of my music start from the ghetto.
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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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Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
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It is because my roots are so strong that I can fly.
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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.
