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Roots Quotes

I already visited Rwanda when I was five, but I don't really remember my roots.

Roots Remember Five Rwanda Really

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.

Tree Me Roots Fall Now Christmas

Running fills a need so we make fewer demands on others. Running reveals the roots of negative thinking, so the weeds can be pulled. Running reconnects the soul to the source, inspiring hope and creativity.

Kristin Armstrong

Hope Creativity Soul Roots Negative

I belong in America more than South Africa. I can't remember the feeling of living there anymore. It's like it was in another life. That's sad in a way. It is my country. It's where I grew up. You don't know what it's like to have these negative feelings about your homeland. There are roots you can't escape.

Life Sad Roots Negative America You

When I started out, it was rare to see elected representatives with foreign roots. Often, I was relegated to my origins, put in the diversity box: 'You're the new face of diversity.' That annoyed me because I always felt French, and suddenly I was being made to feel I wan't as French as others.

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Diversity Me Roots Face Feel You

My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.

Today I Am Me Roots Reason Exist

Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.

I Am Me Roots Anything Guy Knows

My roots go back to West Africa, but my last name is Kirby, which is not an African name.

Roots Name Back Go Africa West

I made the big turnaround in the early Nineties when I started hearing all the tenth generation punk bands like Green Day and Offspring and all those people. It just made me fall in love with punk again and remember my roots, and since that time I've always wanted to do more of that kind of music again.

Love Music Time Day People Roots

The fans in Canada have been there since day one. They're the originals. When people say that's your roots, that's literally my roots. I've just cut this tree off and replanted it somewhere else and it started growing. But the roots are there.

Tree Day People Roots Canada Say

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

Woman Roots Control Gun Gun Control

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.

Henry Louis Gates

People Roots Same Helping Ancestry

I've had some Democrat African-American leaders tell me they're really not all that comfortable with Obama as the lead at the MLK festivities 'cause he's not down for the struggle. He does not have that in his roots.

Struggle Me Roots Down Comfortable

I'm gonna be real everywhere I go, but I'm with my people, I'm connected to my roots - I'm in my country! I don't need to live somewhere else.

Live People Roots Country Go Need

Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.

Football Roots Think Connection Seem

When I started picking out music for myself, I was a hip-hop kid. DMX, The Roots, Outkast, people like that.

Music Myself People Roots Hip-Hop

It is very disappointing to see the Punjabi music scene of today. The lyrical quality has deteriorated; it is only people like Sartaaj and Gurdas Maan Ji who are sticking to their roots.

Harbhajan Singh

Music Today Quality People Roots

I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and... my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring.

Journey Wife Aging Roots Hair Think

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea.

Roots Enough Back Go Something Idea

I've always been a bit of a lost soul, and I think that goes back to me being adopted and not knowing my roots.

Soul Me Roots Think Not Knowing

It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before.

Style Me Roots America Mystery Back

I never want to lose sight of my roots... A lot of artists want the riches and the fame. I want to tell stories you can put into the context of your life.

Lukas Forchhammer

Life Roots You Lose Fame Want

I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.

Family Roots Never Denied Part Ever

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.

Roots Moving Fly Wings You Real

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