The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity

Alex Hailey, who traced his roots all the way to the back of the bus. Never got a dinner!

If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow.

I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.

Think I'm gettin' sick, I'm feelin' illegal/ And not having money is the root of all evil

The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.

When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.

I'm a Puerto Rican woman whose family has roots in Regla de Ocha, also known as Santeria.

My roots go back to West Africa, but my last name is Kirby, which is not an African name.

So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self.

Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.

The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.

The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

I didn't truly understand the depth of my roots until I was old enough to wonder and care.

A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.

Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools.

Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?

The things that are considered to be respectable have their roots in unrespectable things.

There seemed to be endless obstacles - it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart.

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

I like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.

Music is just something that explains people lives for them - that's what people call roots

Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.

Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

What you have to do if you are going to treat any disease is get to the root of the disease.

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.

Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

You were the leaves, basking in the sunlight. I was the root, growing in the darkness ~Danzo

Each free kick carries my name, and all are my children. And they have South American roots.

I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress.

I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.

Even if you want to try out something new, that should not be done without losing your roots.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.

That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.

I've never forgot my roots and where I came from, and I'd not change a thing about my journey.

I think all of this—The Roots and DJing included—was meant to prepare me for The Tonight Show.

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