Quotes with roots

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  • John F. Kennedy If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Angela Merkel If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Ansel Adams Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Harry S. Truman Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Augustus William Hare Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep together some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, insulated peaks. So is it with great men.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Alex Haley My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.
    Alex Haley
    American writer (1921 - 1992)
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  • Wilt Chamberlain Nobody roots for Goliath.
    Wilt Chamberlain
    American basketball player (1936 - 1999)
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  • Orson Welles 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.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Brad Holland Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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