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When the Killers first came out, a lot of people thought we were English, and it touched a chord in me, because my roots are very American.
— Brandon Flowers
My roots are in my record player.
— Evan Parker
My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them.
— Sylvia Plath
Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.
— Robert Carlyle
I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.
— Ann Demeulemeester
I'm very proud of my roots, and I would never try not to be who I am.
— Rebecca Ferguson
My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.
— Teresa Heinz
All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.
— Jesse Tyler Ferguson
The roots of my music start from the ghetto.
— Ziggy Marley
I don't want to be the river anymore. I want to be the earth that the tree roots in. And I believe that I can, if you'll be my tree. Will you?
— Sabrina Jeffries
Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.
— Henry Louis Gates
My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.
— Pat Mastelotto
My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.
— Miranda Richardson
My roots are firmly planted in the glory of nature. The soil beneath my feet heartens each step.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.
— Rocco DiSpirito
I know my roots and I cannot forget the journey I made.
— Maria Sharapova
Yes, for me audio-visual performance has its roots in my experience working as an improvising musician and composer.
— Kurt Ralske
Jade is my everything: my wings, my roots, my sky. I am in love with her.And she tried to kill me.
Now that is some messed up shit right now. — Rochelle Maya Callen
I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots.
— Smokey Robinson
The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.
— Andrew Bird
I am not perfect,my roots are not watered with perfection. — Nomthandazo Tsembeni
Digging through my roots to understand the way my branches grew.
— Saleem Haddad
The force that through the green fuse drives the flowerDrives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer — Dylan Thomas
I came out of independent film, that's my roots.
— Nicolas Cage
Do you want to know the real reason I came back, Alix? It was because of you. You're my roots. Wherever you are would be home to me.
— Katherine Allred
Freedomat the end of the road;
there
where
my roots in the light of the sun. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann
My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
I planted a seed of hatred in my heart. I swore it would grow to be a massive tree whose roots would strangle them all.
— Ruta Sepetys
My interest in science had many roots. Some came from my mother as she finished her B.A. degree studies in college while I was in my early teens.
— Richard Smalley
By the age of nine, I felt like a plant, constantly being repotted without enough time for my roots to recover, ever weakening.
— Sasha Martin
When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.
— Wanda Sykes
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.
— Aretha Franklin
I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.
— China Machado
All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West.
— James Norman Hall
I am strong as steel and my roots are planted deep in this southern soil. Time may have weathered me, but I will always bend with the wind
— Nancy B. Brewer
I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.
— Barbara Lynn
I'm still true to my Southern roots.
— Randy Jackson
I love Cleveland, and I love going back home. That's where my family is. That's where my roots are.
— Kym Whitley
My roots really instilled Chicago values in me.
— Sondra Radvanovsky
I want to be reborn as a tree; that way I can plant my roots down, never move and can never be separated from the ones I love.
— Son Eun-seo
I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising,
— Miriam Makeba
I wouldn't want to disappoint my fans by doing anything exciting. You've got to stay true to your roots.
— Grumpy Cat
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
— Alan Lightman
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.
— Juliette Binoche
Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pilllow.
— Francisco X. Alarcon
My hands resemble some ancient tree: the roots that bind up the earth, the rock and the ceaselessly nibbling wordms.
— Mark Z. Danielewski
I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.
— G. Willow Wilson
I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree.
— John Burroughs
Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.
— Alan Parsons
Poland and my roots are very important for me. That's why I decided to make a feature film in Poland, and with only Polish money.
— Malgorzata Szumowska
My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
— Harland Williams
I'll never forget where I'm from, never forget my roots. It doesn't matter where I live. I'm English, simple as that.
— David Beckham
The pull of the mountain is like gravity for my soul.
— Heather Day Gilbert
My roots were pretty far removed from high income. It's interesting to be back there at the level of income I have now, at this stage in my life.
— Morgan Freeman
My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.
— Kate Zambreno
I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.
— Joe Satriani
My heart searches for an escape. We're outside, so anywhere will do, but my soul roots her feet in place. I'm not going anywhere.
— Andrea Randall
I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
— Carice Van Houten
When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.
— Edward Ruscha
I'm a very spiritual person, and proud of my Mormon roots.
— Jon Huntsman Jr.
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
— Ray Charles
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
Although I have started my solo activities but this doesnt mean I'll give up my roots, SS501 is my root .
— Kim Hyun-joong
My favourite poem is called 'Roots and Wings' - it's a very moving poem about how if you've got real roots you can fly.
— David Miliband
I'm going back to the old Shaq. I was normal last year - I was an earthling last summer. I had to go back to my alien roots.
— Shaquille O'Neal
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But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.
— Edvard Munch
Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea.
— Mick Taylor
Being a singer is not just for popularity, it is more like cheering people's hearts and never forget my root.
— Kim Kyu-jong
I have never hid my spiritual roots. They just weren't something that came under the spotlight.
— Amar'e Stoudemire
I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy.
— Nicholas Sparks
I'm planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots.
— Andrea Koehle Jones
My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.
— John Prescott
I want to show how strong I am from my roots.
— Edward James Olmos
My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact - those are my roots, professionally.
— Chris Noth
A single pink poppy lay on the footpath, its roots still crusted with earth. I picked it up and it drooped forlornly in my hands.
— Lili Wilkinson
Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve And ponder the days ...
— Kellie Elmore
I'm getting back to my old roots.
— Tiger Woods