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Roots Quotes

I don't believe in bright, cheesy colors that are applied from roots to tips. I'm not really into that. But I love the more fashion-y way of adding color to your hair methodically.

Love Roots Colors Hair Believe Way

I'd like to see drag really cultivate its political roots.

Roots Political See Drag Cultivate

In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.

Bobbie Ann Mason

Home Roots America Dream Country

I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

School Roots Looking Think You High

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Men Fight Roots Creation Build

The notion of someone who is fitting in or trying to become part of a larger family... It's hard to separate that from my own Jewish roots.

Family Roots Someone Trying Become

Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together.

Work Mother Water Together Roots

My grandmother valued her Southern roots, folk culture, and healing.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Culture Healing Roots Grandmother

My roots are Scottish. My dad's parents are from Scotland, and my mum's dad is Scots.

Katharine Isabelle

Parents Roots Scotland Scottish Mum

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Wilt Chamberlain

Roots Nobody Everybody Goliath David

When my hair was dark for 'House,' that was the hardest to maintain because it was like every three weeks my light roots would start coming in. And you can't really just dye your hair one color brown because then it looks like a helmet on television, so then I had to have four colors of brown woven into my hair every three weeks.

Jennifer Morrison

Light Roots Colors Hair Start Color

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.

Myself Experience I Am Roots Find

I grew up in The Bronx. I mean, I was born and raised in New York City. And I started singing in Spanish because I was always just connected to my Latin roots.

New York City Roots Singing Born Up

I went to high school in Texas for one year, my senior year. My parents wanted me to get out of Stockholm because I was running with the wrong crew. They wanted me to get back to my roots.

School Parents Me Roots High School

I get very sentimental, I get very nostalgic, and when I live in a place, I instantly put down way too many roots.

Live Roots Down Place Way Get

Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with deep roots and old loyalties, skeptical of authority, they are proud and inflexibly territorial.

Roots Small Proud Deep India Know

Writing 'Hoop Roots' was a substitute or a surrogate activity. I can't play anymore - my body won't cooperate - so in the writing of the book, I was looking to tell a good story about my life and about basketball, but I was also looking to entertain myself the way that I entertain myself when I play.

John Edgar Wideman

Life Good Myself Roots Writing Book

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

Vision Art Culture Roots Society

The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots.

Eduardo Galeano

Beauty Sad History Joy Roots Play

I'm half Egyptian, and I'm Muslim. But I grew up in Canada, far from my Arab roots. Like so many who straddle East and West, I've been drawn, over the years, to try to better understand my origins.

Shereen El Feki

Roots Better Canada Understand Try

A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.

Maynard James Keenan

Words Roots America Back Go Europe

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.

Day Roots You Find Want Out

Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left.

Culture Roots Process Honor Results

Although the French appellation system has its roots in the 1923 system created in Chateauneuf-du-Pape by Baron Le Roy, proprietor of the renowned Chateau Fortia, Chateauneuf-du-Pape never developed a reputation for quality or achieved the prestige enjoyed by such regions as Burgundy and Bordeaux.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Quality Roots Reputation Never

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