Quotes with grass-roots

Quotes 61 till 80 of 86.

  • Alex Haley Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
    Alex Haley
    American writer (1921 - 1992)
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  • Burning Spear Some people see life as many steps up and try to forget where they are coming from, you understand? A little step in life on a commercial or a material level is a good step, but a big step does not mean a strong step - you tend to lose your roots - and if you don't be careful, you can fall.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Machiavelli States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • George Herbert Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Mark Twain Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Alva Myrdal The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Dylan Thomas The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.
    Dylan Thomas
    English poet (1914 - 1953)
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  • Denis Waitley The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Günter Grass The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Aldous Huxley The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Aristotle The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Bobby Seale They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Bill McCartney This type of gathering is unprecedented. The time has come for Christians to publicly affirm our Jewish roots, distinctions and oneness in Jesus Christ.
    Bill McCartney
    American football player and coach (1940 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Buddy Wakefield We are the fed up grass roots movement of goose flesh, hell bent on living this one life by the way we feel our spines, saying what we mean, refusing to allow the few to preach to the many when it is the many who need to be hearing eachother.
    On Spoken Word Introduction (Some They Cant Contain)
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Alexander Smith We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Louis de Bernieres We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Mother Teresa We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Burnie Burns We wanted to make movies back in college before Rooster Teeth. Our roots have always been in feature filmmaking, and we've always wanted to go back to it.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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