Roots Quotes

I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.

But a lot of my training can be done in Aston - a lot of the hard work, so to speak. But a new atmosphere, a new place, and it's good for me because I didn't want to get stuck in one spot, so coming home is good, back and forth, you know, where my roots are.

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people where I'm from.

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

I am a fan of today's sound as long as we don't get too slick, and yet I am very reverent of my roots.

When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.

Nobody roots for Goliath.

And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And I thought I can't be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them through the tough times.

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution.

I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

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

I want to show how strong I am from my roots.

Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where.

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.

Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.

Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea.

I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.

I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in black American music. I love it.

The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.