371 Roots Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Eric Clapton

Being an American is a state of mind, and to be in a family is to feel the power of belonging, the power of your roots. Family is a tree, the strength of a tree, the roots, the leaves, the past and the present, the future, the fruits, the seeds. Esai Morales

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The perception of the horizon is an earthbound event; all horizons disappear in space, and we are left shorn of the sweet roots that have held us to the earth, challenged to imagine what is truly present just before us, a unified and seemingly limitless universe. Eugene Kennedy

Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials. Evan Bayh

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If you get into really learning about the roots of monotheism, it was utterly a radical cultural moment. The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it. Ezra Furman

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As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of our folk arts. We can do this if we are true to our roots and strive for excellence. F. Sionil Jose

I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots. G. Willow Wilson

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My roots in electronic music go from weird glitch music to now what's seen as pop music. Electronic music is pop music now. GRiZ

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I know where I come from and what my roots are. Gabriel Batistuta

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I manage every player as well as I possibly can, regardless of which club they're from, what their roots are. Gareth Southgate

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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious. Garrett Hardin

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The reason why Botswana has done very well is because it's the only black African country which went back to its roots and built upon its own indigenous institutions. George Ayittey

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I've been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. I'm 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues. George Noory

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I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation. George Shearing

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I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve. George W. Bush

To my astonishment, everything that I had assumed was now questioned by the findings. What started off as a search for identity that appeared to be purely Scottish in origin ended up as a discovery of my migrant roots - indeed an understanding that almost all of our families, at some stage, have been migrants - and my European roots. Gordon Brown

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Like Hillary Clinton in the United States, Kuczynski is a prototypical member of the trans-American governing class, with deep roots in both the private and public sector and its revolving-door relationship between Washington think tanks, the State Department, and high-level Latin American ministries. Greg Grandin

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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly. Harland Williams

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Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us. Harpo Marx

I think I started writing about identity, and I used to believe that identity is the story. But now I'm not so much subscribed to that. I mean, with 'Mr. Fox,' it has a feminist agenda as well. And so, as I sort of been away from writing about identity, I still feel that kind of tug of roots and, you know, cultural background. Helen Oyeyemi

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You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow. Henning Mankell

Home You Carry More Than Where Decide Roots Your Grow

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