Roots Quotes
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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.
Ricky Jay
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With Hitler it was all floating, without roots, intangible and mediumistic.
Ernst Hanfstaengl
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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.
Russell Peters
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Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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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”)
George Sterling
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You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.
William P. Young
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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.
Ernest Borgnine
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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.
Stephen Covey
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I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.
George Shearing
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Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
Theodore Roethke
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Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.
George Peele
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My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.
Miranda Richardson
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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.
Elizabeth Goudge
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But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.
Haruki Murakami
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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.
Esai Morales
