Roots Quotes

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

I know my roots and I cannot forget the journey I made.

I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.

In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other.

Pretty much every weekend, my wife and I have the shall-we-live-in-the-country conversation. I suppose it's something to do with getting older and feeling I want to shed some of the things I've been doing for the last 20 years and go back to my roots.

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding - no frills, down to the bone and intense.

I think this is one of the greatest strengths of this school. Not only do the students go on to achieve great milestones in their own lives, they never forget their roots and the school that gave them the chance they needed to improve their lives and their families' lives.

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.

The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity.

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.

To get the adrenaline pumping between events - or to help me switch off, Jay Z, the Roots and Drake are on my playlist.

My cultural roots are something illusive.

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

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

I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.

The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.

The first thing I feel like we have the potential to do is to deliver to consumers more roots to their home.

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

We are going back to our roots by cultivating new unsigned talent who otherwise might go unnoticed.

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle.

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.

We don't want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism.

I am proud of my black roots and of the black blood that runs in my veins.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.