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He said what nobody understood was, she always felt like a bird in a cage--she wanted to be without roots.
— Kate Alcott
My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them.
— Sylvia Plath
I used to picture us as two leaves, blowing miles apart in the wind yet bound by the deep tangled roots of the tree from which we had both fallen.
— Khaled Hosseini
I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.
— Ann Demeulemeester
Your flaunting poppies of self-conceit will be pulled up by the roots, your
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.
— Stephen Covey
Shallow breathing is the root of all evil but conscious deep breathing restores and secures our souls.
— Desmond Green
A tree that falls makes a lot of noise. But a woodland that grows and spreads its roots, does it quietly.
— Cristiane Serruya
The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings
— Bryant McGill
I know my roots and I cannot forget the journey I made.
— Maria Sharapova
The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
— Edward Abbey
Your roots, your family, your friends all become so much more important to you as you get older, especially if you are a wandering minstrel like me.
— Amanda Donohoe
The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.
— Milan Kundera
Millennials aspire to marry the blue skies thinking of the Boomers with the grass-roots mindset of GenX.
— Mal Fletcher
Our virtues and view spring from one root.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
One of the things I like about Cyber World is that it shows cyberpunk has left its heteronormative boy's club roots behind in the dust.
— Jason Heller
We mustn't hesitate to cut corruption at its roots.
— King Felipe VI
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots. The other is wings.
— Hodding Carter
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
What good are roots if you can't take them with you
— Gertrude Stein
Moss grows without roots.
— Vanessa Diffenbaugh
It seemed to her that almost everything she possessed had its roots sunk in that dark soil and was deriving its nourishment from it.
— Haruki Murakami
Going back to legalistic roots contaminates the blood of Jesus.
— Sherry K. White
People like Nicholas are always gonna be around, roots of disaster. But if we fail to rescue them (Zach and Chanel), that is when they actually win.
— Hamsa Priya Selvam
You can't have the fruits without the roots.
— Stephen Covey
The roots of the word "compete" are the Latin con petire, which meant "to seek together.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Especially at a time when one's life was new, roots helped.
— Barbara Delinsky
Too many artists and writers have forgotten their roots. I embrace my fans because, in a way, they're family.
— Jim Steranko
All things must come to its roots from where it is planted.
— Teresa Of Avila
The roots of art and play lie very close together.
— Angus Wilson
We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.
— John Guare
Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
— Malcolm X
A bestseller is a book written by a rich person of Indian roots staying in Europe for more than a decade..
— Himmilicious
If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do.
— Mark Batterson
The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
In a full grown rye plant, the total length of the roots may reach up to 380 miles (613km)!
— Jenny Kellett
On one of the right-side-up pages show wrote, with some difficulty, Know what roots know: there is only one tree.
— Katherine Catmull
Live in your roots, not in your branches.
— Nancy Willard
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Po's [Kung Fu Panda] unending enthusiasm is something we wish we could have. We can't help but root for him because of his geek energy.
— Jennifer Yuh Nelson
The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
— Sargent Shriver
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
She is not like me. She knows only the tree of life. She has not seen its twisted roots pawing stones and coffins.
— Hannah Kent
The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.
— Vincent Massey
Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
— Robert Fulghum
The roots of the strongest tree grow deep.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.
— Edward Ruscha
Love people who hate you and their hatred won't get grounds to gain roots.
— Israelmore Ayivor
The roots of a lasting relationship are mindfulness, deep listening and loving speech, and a strong community to support you.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
I'm a very spiritual person, and proud of my Mormon roots.
— Jon Huntsman Jr.
Is the square root of hate the same thing as love times love?
— Eugene Mirman
Love is the root; obedience is the fruit.
— Matthew Henry
I feel sorry for anyone that I am obsessed with. I am worse than gum in your hair, very, very close to the roots.
— Margaret Cho
I love your roots, not the flower everybody sees!
— Akilnathan Logeswaran
Humility means coming to the root of the matter, honestly looking at yourself and saying: "This is me for better or for worse."
— Frederick Lenz
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
— Ray Charles
Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
The word of God protects the soul, it deepens the roots of faith and it softens the hearts of His people.
— Euginia Herlihy
Lay down your roots now,let them wrap tight around mine,
sink deep in the soil. — Tyler Knott Gregson
Putting one's parents out to pasture in a nursing home has very deep historical roots in Western Europe.
— Francis Fukuyama
Tell me about yourselves and describe the sun to a miserable wretch who has no roots anywhere and who remains your faithful.
— Albert Camus
It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality.
— Bharati Mukherjee
A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
— Walter Salles
When we as a nation, strive in vain to preserve the beauty of our national life, forgetting our biblical roots, we are doomed.
— Richard Halverson
Therapy uncovered deep roots of these everyday problems - roots stretching down to the bedrock of existence. I
— Irvin D. Yalom
The wind drops us where it will and there we have the choice to either fight our fate or grow roots and bloom.
— Jayne Castel
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
Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.
— George Weinberg
If fans are discouraged, find another team to root for.
— Mike D'Antoni
I didn't truly understand the depth of my roots until I was old enough to wonder and care.
— Aeriel Miranda
I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
— Carice Van Houten
