Roots Quotes
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With Hitler it was all floating, without roots, intangible and mediumistic.
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Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
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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.
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It is because my roots are so strong that I can fly.
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God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.
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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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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.
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The roots of my music start from the ghetto.
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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.
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I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.
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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”)
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Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
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You got to keep your hand in your craft, otherwise you can rot at the roots and first thing you know, you got nothing.
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Guess will always be loyal and true to its roots.
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Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.
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It's a poor sort of virtue that has no roots in love. It's why you do or don't do a thing that matters most to my mind. If love of God comes first with you then you deny yourself to keep His commandments, you give away your whole life to Him and glory in what the world calls loss.
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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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Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
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Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
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If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here
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I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.
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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.
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What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.
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The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.
