Top 155 Rooted Quotes

Part of my success was rooted in psychology.

I lead Labor – Labor is the party that founded the state of Israel; it’s deeply rooted in Israeli society.

The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don’t see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.

My first impression of Beverly Hills was that it had a landscape of small houses built by famous architects, so I didn’t want to make a big block or sculpture here; I wanted to make a community rooted to the place.

Although, at times, soccer is a challenge to mind, body, and spirit, fundamentally, the progression of the U.S. women’s game and those who play it reflects a distinctively American culture, rooted in our struggle, shared aspiration, hard work and self-determination.

People want to create a space that feels like them – one that’s deeply rooted in their personality. That’s important. Your space is an opportunity to tell your story and showcase your experiences. That’s why I think every material – down to your faucet – needs to serve a function and feel personal.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

When you set out to carry on a tradition as deep rooted as folk music is, you’ve got to have your story together. You’ve got to study and have a foundation. Jeffrey Foucault has that foundation, and you can hear it in his voice, and feel it in his music. He’s got an understanding that you don’t hear that often.

What makes me feel good is all of the people that rooted for A.I. get a chance to say, ‘He did what you never thought he could do. The critics. He did what you never thought he could accomplish.’ This is a moment that me and my fans and my family and friends can share together because we always believed in the dream.

I watched ‘Iron Man 3’ the other night, and my chin was on the floor. ‘Vikingdom’ is a different type of movie, because it’s rooted in reality. The characters are more real; they’re not these superhuman people who can fly and do things.

We are in a conflict, whether we like it or not. I think we have to identify the enemy and call it by its name. And the enemy is an ideology rooted in militant Islam.

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

All my stories are mainly slice-of-life and rooted to real issues and situations that I have experienced myself.

I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I’ve always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs.

It is usually the setting that decides whether a movie can be made in two languages. If the subject is rooted up North, then I make it in Hindi. But if the subject is common, then I am open to making the movie in multiple languages.

Your ‘hara’ is here, where your uterus is if you’re a woman, where the tummy sticks out if you’re a man, the centre of gravity of the human body. It is the synthesis of our intellect, body and spirit, and by developing our consciousness of it, we can become incredibly rooted.

No alliance in history has done more to prevent war, and no alliance is more rooted in the values America champions, than NATO.

Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country’s principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

Our foreign policy must be rooted in a love for all of humanity.

We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion.

Film is built for kinetic movement and crash and burn. It’s a great tool for spectacles. But if it’s not rooted to something a little higher, you’re just kicking your butt around the corner. You can only take so much of that. You have to have some sort of foundation to explode from.

Let’s face it: much of what we truly value in life is rooted in our experience of repression and conflict.

I remember my manager telling me, ‘Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first’. Those words were very helpful.

Fashion only seems to make sense if it’s rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.

‘The Clone Wars’ was rooted in George Lucas and his characters.

I am a rooted person, ‘Awwal’ is a social satire.

What is not fair now is that corporations pay less and less tax, which means that you and I pay more because we’re rooted somewhere, they’ve got our address, right?

I don’t like to be entertaining. I don’t like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.

Fundamentalism is rooted in fear, and it’s another reason I’m interested in the horror genre, because I know the fear that fundamentalism is built upon.

The best comedy is truthful. So if you say something in a way that is amusing, but is rooted in truth, you can get away with it.

Our entire society is rooted around the idea of more, and longer has become the measure of success.

I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity.

Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them a deep rooted firmness which enables them to lead a decent way of life.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

The search for the Torah codes is rooted in the unfathomable theological premise that the Torah – itself a set of five books of limited length – contains literally all truth.

I feel very much rooted in being Egyptian, and I also feel very rooted in being a guy from New Jersey.

We are rooted in Kingian nonviolence.

Men find it more difficult than women to be alone. They function better with someone in their lives. Being married, they are rooted, so they feel safe to go and do what they want to do.

The first year I started liking the Dolphins was Super Bowl VI, which they lost to the Cowboys. I was 5. My whole family was pulling for the Cowboys, so I rooted for the Dolphins. They lost, and I cried.

Personally, I don’t like to talk too much to the actors about the camera choices because I feel like the way I want them to perform is as if it feels very rooted in the real world and that I’m essentially stepping back and just watching and hoping they feel safe with me watching.

I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can’t get away from completely.

With the commissioning of new schools undertaken by a local director of school standards, decisions will be fair and transparent, rooted in the needs of the local community. The admissions code and the role of the adjudicator will also be strengthened to provide fairness for all children.

Justice that is not rooted in equity, in social welfare, and in community is not justice at all.

I think it’s vital to have something outside your acting to keep you rooted in the real world, and help you fill the vacuum. If you have nothing else, it can be unhealthy. For me being a Christian has been invaluable: it simply means acting isn’t the centre of my life.

Everything I do is deeply rooted in my faith and especially in Jesus Christ.

The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that’s rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, ‘What if I wandered into this writer’s people here?’ If you’ve done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can’t buy.

Most of Gingrich’s moderate positions are rooted in a realpolitik that transcends ideology.

Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinted on the human soul. The True Self is not our creation, but God’s. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

I realised that you can go through times of extreme happiness, but if that happiness is not coming from a deeply rooted place, you will also be going through extreme lows of sadness.

Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that’s not something you can stand behind – it confuses me. I think it’s a really great word.

Clearly, we must denounce militaristic approaches to global unrest and find life-affirming ways to end repressive cycles of violence rooted in discrimination, humiliation, and despair.

Everyone is so estranged; no one is rooted. That’s what I like to write about more than anything else. Everything being so mixed up. Racially mixed up, people moving from place to place, everything shifting.

Policing has never been about public safety: its origins are rooted in social control, the denial of people’s human rights, securing the U.S. borders, recapturing escaped, enslaved Africans, and upholding racist, homophobic, and transphobic laws.