Roots Quotations | Page 2

My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.

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

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

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.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

Hope and purpose in this world is living as best as you can and maybe having life that gives back. But simply giving back isn't purpose; it's a branch of purpose, but it is not the trunk or root of the tree.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

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.

We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

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.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

What's great about TV, and what I love about being on 'Parenthood,' is you have this family. I'm now going on four years of working with the same 100 people, and that helps you feel like your life has more roots. It's more conducive to having a family, and you're staying in town. So that part is amazing.

The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain.

Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots

The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

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

I always think of a show like a plant - a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn't pull it out and chop the roots up.

Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say ...

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.

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty - Which draws us together.

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words. And the big shock to me has been that although the president said the words, he just did not absorb the ideas. And that is the root of, maybe, everything.

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.

I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact - those are my roots, professionally.

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.

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

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

If I were in politics, and if you ever get me in the White House, trust me, there's a big change coming. What happened to America? We lost our roots.

I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.

I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.

I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.

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

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.

Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.

Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework.

I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.

Politicians all over the world cater to domestic vote banks. They will spend only on what their constituents want. So unless there is a grass root green movement in a nation the politicians will not be willing to spend money on curbing emissions. More awareness is needed amongst the people to effect the real change in how governments spend.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

There are still personalities that you bond with or a fighting spirit that you connect with, but as a host you have to stay impartial and root for all of them.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.

When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

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.

If not for the Tea Party, the Republican Party would not be coming back to its roots.

I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

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.

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.

The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

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.

This body, the United States Congress, was united, Republicans and Democrats alike, in taking that action, toppling the Taliban government, and working to try and root out al Qaeda and find Osama bin Laden.

The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.

People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

No matter where you are, the root of you is designed from a young age. So if my confidence was taken as a child, you can gain back a lot of the confidence, but that root of the cavity will still be there.

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

The roots of my music start from the ghetto.

I'm trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you're constantly chasing one job after another, and you look back and you've had all these very extraordinary experiences with extraordinary people, but there's not a line of continuity to it.

You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don't even know who The Who is. It's like, where have you been? Justin Timberlake? C'mon. Where are the roots?

The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

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

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.

At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.

What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.

Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.

It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene. That's really what reggae music is about: that voice against oppression and struggle.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

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.

I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things.

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.

If we had loads of money as a family, things would be different and they'd come to visit more and I'd get to spend more time here. But I'm laying down roots in America so when I'm there, just being at home, it's harder to break away from that.

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.

But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change women's lives, we need to deal with those root causes.

The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem.

I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.