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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you. -- Isabel Allende
Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them. -- Jonas Salk
Roots are nice, but a tree canâ??t run. -- Andrew Vachss
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. -- Theodore Roethke
Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots. -- Nicholas Culpeper
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -- Aristotle
Coincidence means only a connection that's not seen. Roots meet underground. -- Charlotte Armstrong
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. -- Dalai Lama
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. -- Victor Hugo
My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots. -- William Carlos Williams
I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.' -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people. -- Alex Haley
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. -- Denis Waitley
I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots. -- John Evelyn
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. -- Marcus Garvey
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I went to see that movie 'From Hell,' or as Osama bin Laden calls it - 'Roots.' -- Jay Leno
Whenever I watch the beginning of Jimmy Fallon, I feel like I should sue the Roots for bait and switch. -- Andy Kindler
Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same. -- Henry Louis Gates
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To get the adrenaline pumping between events - or to help me switch off, Jay Z, the Roots and Drake are on my playlist. -- Jessica Ennis
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. -- John F. Kennedy
I want the 'Roots' biopic to be animated - I see Charles Schulz drawing us. I think it would be more hilarious with the voices of children. -- Questlove
Storms make trees take deeper roots. -- Dolly Parton
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots. -- George Herbert
Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots? -- Sara Gruen
I think it is important to maintain your personality, your roots, very important. -- Paz Vega
For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. -- Dalai Lama
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. -- Frank A. Clark
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. -- Ray Charles
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. -- Amelia Earhart
Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul. -- Anthony of Padua
As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field. -- Billy Corgan
Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist. -- Amy Carmichael
Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them. -- Charles Dickens
No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves. -- Amelia Earhart
I know my roots and I cannot forget the journey I made. -- Maria Sharapova
I'll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I'll always help out one of my own. -- Cher Lloyd
A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders. -- Larry Elder
You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself. -- Malcolm X
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. -- Florence Nightingale
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. -- Orson Welles
I don't have a gardener, because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain, but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots. -- Justin Hartley
A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away. -- Ivan Turgenev
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. -- Isabel Allende
Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet. -- Chuck D
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. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
You can become quite blase, and also, I have no sense of home; I don't have roots. I've never had that feeling that someone else is going to take care of me, ever. I don't trust people. -- Lykke Li
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. -- Margaret Atwood
My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie. -- Douglas Conant
When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years - now it's called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports. -- Dietrich Mateschitz
There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says. -- Jerry Saltz
Nobody roots for Goliath. -- Wilt Chamberlain
Linux doesn't have IP roots. -- Darl McBride
How do you eat your roots? -- Kamila Shamsie
Ideas are the roots of creation. -- Ernest Dimnet
Trees have roots, Jews have legs. -- Isaac Deutscher
My cultural roots are something illusive. -- Ang Lee
Freedom has its roots in religion... -- Dorothy Day
Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible. -- Jill Lepore
Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded. -- Ozzie Zehner
Civilization has its roots in the soil. -- Charles Kellogg
I think everyone roots for the underdog. -- Johnny Knoxville
I'm still true to my Southern roots. -- Randy Jackson
I'm getting back to my old roots. -- Tiger Woods
My roots are in my record player. -- Evan Parker
Anger is the fruit of rotten roots. -- Joyce Meyer
The deep roots never doubt spring will come. -- Marty Rubin
I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal. -- Oral Roberts
Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep. -- Agnes Meyer Driscoll
You can't have the fruits without the roots. -- Stephen Covey
Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath. -- Wilt Chamberlain
Live in your roots, not in your branches. -- Nancy Willard
Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots. -- Christopher Lasch
Which of my Jewish roots do I follow? -- Leonard Bernstein
Deep roots are not reached by the frost. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
A non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet. -- Casey Kasem
Many journalists seem to desire 'liberation' from Christian roots. -- Marvin Olasky
A good parent gives their child roots and wings. -- Jonas Salk
The heart of a grass-roots campaign is the ownership. -- Ted Cruz
You wash the roots very carefully before you plant. -- Howard Rheingold
Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation. -- Helen Keller
The roots of Cuban music are in my head. -- Compay Segundo
Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots? -- Pablo Neruda
I want to take IBM back to its roots. -- Lou Gerstner
We mustn't hesitate to cut corruption at its roots. -- King Felipe VI
I came out of independent film, that's my roots. -- Nicolas Cage
Nobody can ask us to abjure our fascist roots. -- Gianfranco Fini
Let's not grow with our roots in the ground. -- Criss Jami
The roots of my music start from the ghetto. -- Ziggy Marley
God bless the roots! Body and soul are one. -- Theodore Roethke
Wealth and greed are the roots of all evils -- Ali R.A
Fear and ignorance are the key roots to racism. -- Timothy Long
Going back to legalistic roots contaminates the blood of Jesus. -- Sherry K. White
There is nothing new... everything has roots in the past. -- Dave Liebman
Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty. -- Walter Darby Bannard
If you forget your roots, you've lost sight of everything -- Walter Payton
Remember, we without our roots and branches cannot be saved. -- Quentin L. Cook
A Painting without emotion is like a tree without roots. -- Ray Wilkins
I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots -- Smokey Robinson
I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics. -- J. B. Pritzker
For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots. -- John Lyly
Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A society without humour is like a tree without roots. -- Stephan Attia
Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security. -- Edward Stettinius, Jr.
Every faith has its story; every faith has its roots. -- Max Lucado
The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits. -- Willie Dixon
We never leave our roots. We just grow new branches. -- Audrey Meadows
I understand people want to hold on to their roots. -- Mariah Carey
A tree without roots is just a piece of wood. -- Marco Pierre White
We came from many roots, and we have many branches. -- Gerald R. Ford
The art of medicine has its roots in the heart. -- Paracelsus
I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music. -- John Lydon
We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie. -- Brent Scowcroft
The roots of art and play lie very close together. -- Angus Wilson
It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions. -- Lewis Carroll
That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp. -- Roy Blount, Jr.

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