Roots Quotes

• And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room of my life. It was practically our family pet.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Roots
  • Rooms
  • Surface

• Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

  

  Sara Gruen
  • Leaving
  • Roots

• Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • President
  • Problems
  • Roots

• With Hitler it was all floating, without roots, intangible and mediumistic.

  

  Ernst Hanfstaengl
  • Roots
  • Hitler
  • Floating

• In Bolivia, the middle class, intellectuals and the self-employed are proud of their Indian roots. Unfortunately, some oligarchic groups continue to treat us as being inferior.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Proud
  • Class
  • Groups

• The Labor roots are very strong.Paul Keating, made a comment several years ago about looking at that dragging yourself out of poverty, dragging yourself out of that situation.

  

  Warren Mundine
  • Strong
  • Poverty
  • Comment

• 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
  • People
  • Growing
  • Tree

• I never traced my roots, man. I only know that I'm a brother with a big heart - and that somebody brought my roots over here by way of boat.

  

  Jessy White
  • Heart
  • Boat
  • Roots

• 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
  • Language
  • Identity
  • Translate

• We understand 'Roots,' and that experience was mind-boggling, and it changed the way society viewed race relations. It was incredibly important. With 'Roots,' I was just as proud as anybody else that people of color were getting their stories told.

  

  Esai Morales
  • People
  • Experience
  • Proud

• If not for the Tea Party, the Republican Party would not be coming back to its roots.

  

  Richard Mourdock
  • Republican
  • Roots
  • Coming

• My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Stills
  • Roots
  • Britain

• I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.

  

  George Shearing
  • Jazz
  • Foundation
  • Roots

• I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Book
  • Independent
  • Wanted

• Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Light
  • Flower
  • Roots

• When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.

  

  Walter Hilton
  • Desire
  • Sin
  • Roots

• 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
  • Feels
  • Hands
  • Cards

• The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • World
  • Family
  • Problem

• Secrets...are the very root of cool.

  

  William Gibson
  • Secret
  • Roots

• Within its gates I heard the sound Of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought To whisper what their roots had found. (“A Dream of Fear”)

  

  George Sterling
  • Roots
  • Gates
  • Whisper

• Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Suffering
  • Personality
  • Persons

• You got to keep your hand in your craft, otherwise you can rot at the roots and first thing you know, you got nothing.

  

  Ernest Borgnine
  • Know
  • Roots
  • Craft

• Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

  

  George Peele
  • Faith
  • Beauty
  • Flowers

• You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.

  

  William P. Young
  • Knows
  • Flower
  • Roots

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