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Roots Quotes

I underestimated the low level of capacity. I also underestimated the cultural roots of corruption.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Roots Corruption Low Level Capacity

The two lines from 'Roots' that stick out to me are, 'You no more in Africa. You in America now,' and what I said after Kunta escaped: 'What is it like to be free, Kunta? It must be something.'

Louis Gossett, Jr.

Me Roots Free America You Said

Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to know all his American roots, but he also needs to know about his Brazilian side.

Family Baby Roots Speak American

Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots.

Live Roots Without Branches Cannot

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Roots Action Vegetables Living Soil

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Good Lie Appreciation Roots Goodness

My roots are documentaries.

David L. Wolper

Roots Documentaries

The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through Rip Van Winkle country, routed through boulder fields, across angular juttings of granite and along a path with an unrelenting barrage of roots, rocks and mud, all of it hidden under slick leaves and dangling nettles.

Path New York Roots Trail Rocks New

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

Crystal Eastman

Work Love Women Equality Me Roots

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

God Science Roots Same Would Argue

The Premier League benefits from foreigners, and the game's evolved in a way that's beneficial, but you can't lose the roots of the English game.

Cesar Azpilicueta

Roots Game You Lose Way English

You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!

Music Today Fire Roots Wind Look

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.

Love Good Hope Light Tree Roots

I certainly feel I'm carrying the flag for Britain. I feel an honour in that but, at the same time, knowing my roots are in Africa, I'd like that to help motivate people from there. Even coming from a third world country, it is possible to get to the top of wherever they want to be.

Time People Roots World Feel Help

Free soloing is almost as old as climbing itself, with roots in the 19th century. Climbers are continuing to push the boundaries. There are certainly better technical climbers than me. But if I have a particular gift, it's a mental one - the ability to keep it together where others might freak out.

Together Me Roots Free Gift Better

I was always taught to be myself, be honest, and be true to my roots.

Myself Roots Be True True Always

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

Work Family Science Travel Roots

Agriculture has deep roots both in my life and in Arkansas' history.

Conner Eldridge

Life History Roots Deep My Life

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

Theodore Roethke

Nature Light Flowers Roots Deep

Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet.

Community Roots Speak Hood Need Rap

The magical tapestry that 'Midnight's Children' unfolded became a part of a journey of self-discovery as I spent time close to my roots during the shooting.

Journey Children Time Roots Shooting

You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time.

Time Me Roots Song Better You

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

Roots True Southern Still

I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

Family Patriotism Me Roots World

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