Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. Votes: 5
Victor HugoCoincidence means only a connection that's not seen. Roots meet underground. Votes: 3
Charlotte ArmstrongMy surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots. Votes: 3
William Carlos WilliamsI was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.' Votes: 3
Ta-Nehisi CoatesI am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots. Votes: 3
John EvelynI think all of thisâThe Roots and DJing includedâwas meant to prepare me for The Tonight Show. Votes: 3
QuestloveMy music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. Votes: 2
Ray CharlesA woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders. Votes: 1
Larry ElderYou can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow. Votes: 1
Henning MankellLove is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being. Votes: 1
Victor HugoNineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible. Votes: 0
Jill LeporeWith Hitler it was all floating, without roots, intangible and mediumistic. Votes: 0
Ernst HanfstaenglPoetry has roots, and sometimes they are aerial. Sometimes they are buried. Votes: 0
Shirley Geok-lin LimThe Teacher provides Spiritual Energy! Just like roots provide nutrients to the flowers! Votes: 0
Choa Kok SuiWhat we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College. Votes: 0
William P. LeahyOrder and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots. Votes: 0
Delmore SchwartzI believe it is important for the university to always remember its roots. Votes: 0
Michael N. CastleI wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots. Votes: 0
Sherman AlexieThere are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful. Votes: 0
Rabindranath TagorePatience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing! Votes: 0
Neal A. MaxwellVeneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate. Votes: 0
John Kennedy TooleNever have the world's moneys been so long cut off from their metallic roots. Votes: 0
Murray RothbardPeople don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are. Votes: 0
Katee SackhoffPoetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written. Votes: 0
Shirley Geok-lin LimWhen solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. Votes: 0
Anthony J. D'Angelokindnesses have wings and roots ... wings that never droop, and roots that never die. Votes: 0
Mary Louisa MolesworthI'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena Votes: 0
Francisco VarelaPeople who achieve access to the deepest roots of their freedom can completely change. Votes: 0
Peter KoestenbaumThe roots of the deepest love die in the heart, if not tenderly cherished. Votes: 0
Johann Gottfried HerderAcquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots. Votes: 0
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Darkness, air, water, and sky will come together... and shake the forest to its roots. Votes: 0
Erin HunterMuch of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy. Votes: 0
E. O. WilsonIf you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation. Votes: 0
Henry ThreadgillThe roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin. Votes: 0
Sargent ShriverThe blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music. Votes: 0
Willie DixonChristianity, Judaism, and Islam all stem from the same Abrahamic roots. All three reject terrorism. Votes: 0
H. John PooleDarwinism is a pagan religion whose roots go back to the Sumerians and Ancient Egypt. Votes: 0
Harun YahyaPhenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground. Votes: 0
Marshall McLuhanI really consider myself a Californian, but I have those great comedic roots in Brooklyn. Votes: 0
Mary Tyler MooreJared Kushner has sort of betrayed the Democratic roots that his family grew up in. Votes: 0
Sarah EllisonWhereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere. Votes: 0
Simon KuperA society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future. Votes: 0
Pope FrancisHoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables. Votes: 0
Henry BeardThe fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. Votes: 0
D. H. LawrenceAll things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted. Votes: 0
Saint Teresa of AvilaAn attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheMotown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots Votes: 0
Smokey RobinsonBeauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green. Votes: 0
George PeeleThe roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain. Votes: 0
Keith AblowHe who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil. Votes: 0
OvidNo writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error. Votes: 0
Stuart ShermanWhenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy. Votes: 0
John AdamsViolence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen. Votes: 0
Pat ConroyAs the story grew, it put down roots into the past and threw out unexpected branches . Votes: 0
J. R. R. TolkienFrom a family tree that has healthy roots, there emerge hearty leaves and most beautiful fruits. Votes: 0
Wes FeslerMy roots are Scottish. My dad's parents are from Scotland, and my mum's dad is Scots. Votes: 0
Katharine IsabelleI don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation. Votes: 0
George ShearingWe have our roots in country, and that's our foundation, but we pull from a lot. Votes: 0
Dave HaywoodI love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots. Votes: 0
Tom JenkinsonFrom sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping. Votes: 0
Pablo NerudaNo one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots. Votes: 0
Maya AngelouMusic is just something that explains people lives for them - that's what people call roots Votes: 0
ChronixxThat which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things. Votes: 0
Rudolf SteinerChristianity has so much taken roots among us that drunkards sing gospel songs on their way home Votes: 0
Bangambiki HabyarimanaWhere the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. Votes: 0
Felix AdlerEvery forest branch moves differently in the breeze, but as they sway they connect at the roots. Votes: 0
RumiI carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pillow. Votes: 0
Francisco X. AlarconWe are going back to our roots by cultivating new unsigned talent who otherwise might go unnoticed. Votes: 0
Tommy HilfigerIf not for the Tea Party, the Republican Party would not be coming back to its roots. Votes: 0
Richard MourdockI would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots. Votes: 0
Dinesh D'SouzaMy roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from. Votes: 0
Miranda RichardsonI came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree. Votes: 0
John BurroughsIt's funny; as I get older I'm reverting to my roots - I want to plant stuff. Votes: 0
Melissa McCarthythe world was trying to change its old face and show its underbelly of earth and roots. Votes: 0
Italo CalvinoI am roots in the earth. I am water that flows. I am grounded. I am Watcher. Votes: 0
Veronica WolffA tree without roots will fall over, whereas a tree with roots eventually becomes part of a forest. Votes: 0
Margrethe II of DenmarkThe roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings Votes: 0
Bryant McGillThe stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree. Votes: 0
Charles R. SwindollEthics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots Votes: 0
Dinah Maria Murlock CraikLove should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellI think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly. Votes: 0
Deborah NorvilleThe first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots. Votes: 0
Andrew BirdI can't multiply myself out of a paper bag. But when it comes to roots, I'm your man. Votes: 0
Jerry NewportLove has its roots in sex, but its foliage and flowers are in the pure light of spirit. Votes: 0
Salvador de MadariagaMy roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African. Votes: 0
Teresa HeinzThe thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done. Votes: 0
John OatesI didn't truly understand the depth of my roots until I was old enough to wonder and care. Votes: 0
Aeriel MirandaHave you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure? Votes: 0
Khalil GibranAlex Hailey, who traced his roots all the way to the back of the bus. Never got a dinner! Votes: 0
Red ButtonsI do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me. Votes: 0
Edna St. Vincent MillayIf we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow. Votes: 0
Friedensreich HundertwasserThe seeds that we speed into life to be trees, will soon become fallen if thier roots aren't deep. Votes: 0
Mason JenningsOf what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots. Votes: 0
Eleanor FarjeonI love Cleveland, and I love going back home. That's where my family is. That's where my roots are. Votes: 0
Kym WhitleyAll my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater. Votes: 0
Jesse Tyler Fergusonif you are small root then easily anyone cut you, make you a big roots which never cut from anybody. Votes: 0
AbdulNasirIf you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all. Votes: 0
Angelique KidjoWhat has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain. Votes: 0
J. R. R. TolkienMaybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea Votes: 0
Mick TaylorI wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother. Votes: 0
Rocco DiSpiritoWhen I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots. Votes: 0
Wanda SykesFolk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention. Votes: 0
Alan ParsonsA genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots. Votes: 0
Jose MartiMy hair is an untidy bob. I am very dark, but I embellish the roots because I am white in one clump. Votes: 0
Erin O'Connor