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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

To hold the power of affection and maintain the roots of love, you must stay trusted. — Auliq Ice

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

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

Your flaunting poppies of self-conceit will be pulled up by the roots, your — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform. — Tony Blair

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

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue. — Zadie Smith

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

It is not our job to remain whole.
We came to lose our leaves
Like the trees, and be born again,
Drawing up from the great roots. — Robert Bly

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

The square root of 69 is 8(ate) som' — Drake

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

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification. — Joseph Campbell

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

Sex is the root of which intuition is the foliage and beauty is the flower. — D.H. Lawrence

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

April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain. — T. S. Eliot

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

How can money be the root of all evil when shopping is the cure for all sadness? — Elizabeth Taylor

In a full grown rye plant, the total length of the roots may reach up to 380 miles (613km)! — Jenny Kellett

The moment God put a dream in your heart, the moment the promise took root, God not only started it, but He set a completion date. — Joel Osteen

Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath. — Lucy Freeman

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

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

My heart wants roots
My mind wants wings.
I cannot bear
Their bickerings. — Yip Harburg

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin. — Sargent Shriver

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

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

Every faith has its story; every faith has its roots. — Max Lucado

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

Never root for a team whose uniforms have elastic stretch waistbands. — Susan Sarandon

I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy ... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times. — John Amos

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

Our root fantasy is that "I" am real and that it's possible for "me" to be happy. — Sakyong Mipham

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

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. — Plato

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

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect. — Roy Jenkins

Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out amid the roots of the giants. — Ruth Ozeki

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

The word comes from Latin roots com and templum, "with" and "temple. — Gerald G. May

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

And verily he will find the roots of the good and the bad, the fruitful and the fruitless, all entwined together in the silent heart of the earth. — Kahlil Gibran

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

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other. — Francis Bacon

'National Security' is the root password to the Constitution. — Phil Karn

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality. — Bell Hooks

I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots. — Carice Van Houten

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. — Carl Sandburg