Roots Quotes

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

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

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

It's the first time I have returned to my roots - like going back to be a trio. The fans really wanted me to go back on stage and do the Supremes music, so I went about trying to make it happen. We'll go on tour in the summer.

The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.

I think it is important to maintain your personality, your roots, very important.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

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

To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again.

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

I'm not a fighter, but in my mind I'm fighting every day. 'What's new? What am I doing?' I'm fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren't samurai, but my soul is.

All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West.

I believe it is important for the university to always remember its roots.

I came out of independent film, that's my roots.

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

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.

I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

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.

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.