I was in middle school right around the time the Bloods and the Crips started taking root in Compton and a lot of the other neighborhoods around me. I saw way too many of my peers – smart, kind, good kids – who got drawn into gangs and violence, and their futures were going to be forever scarred by that.
We have to root out the weeds of hate and ensure it doesn’t choke away the healthy flowers of diversity in our borough, city, and state.
The word ‘courage,’ one of my favorite words, the root or the etymology of that word is ‘cour,’ which means heart. I think true courage is actually following your heart and not getting or succumbing to what other people’s definition of what your life should be. Live your life.
I think that money is the root of all evil. I’ve seen it happen.
I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.
I root for anyone who’s got kids and if they want to make it work.
Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.
Eoin Morgan and Joe Root have a really calm and open changing room. There’s no tension there. You don’t have to be walking on egg shells around any of the players.
To say ‘radical feminist’ is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
I’d always thought Cage’s ‘Root of an Unfocus’ would be great in a movie.
I believe that if writers want their readers to care about a character, they have to care themselves. I have to root for a detective who screws up as much as Thorne does, who shares my birthday, my North London stomping ground, and my love of country music, both alt and cheesy.
What you want to do, particularly when you’re dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people’s passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
Do we root for Michael Corleone in the ‘Godfather’ films? I think so, even if he is a monster.
The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, America could turn permanently blue.
I love playing Rosie on ‘Devious Maids,’ and I think that if Rosie would have an NFL team to root for, she would also be a Cleveland Browns fan.
I just like showing people – and this might be at the root of everything that I’ve done – that I don’t want to be looked at as a baseball robot.
I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.
I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.
I’m resigned to the fact that I’m gonna be the person in shows that people hate and dislike and root against. And I’m OK with it.
The challenge is, how do you take someone who’s supposed to be a villain and make that appealing and lovable? You have to empathize with him and put yourself in his shoes and root for him and want him to have the things he wants.
I’m no fan of jam bands. You can take your Gov’t Mule, your Phish, your Rusted Root. But Derek Trucks is a special musician – perhaps the greatest slide guitarist who ever lived.
At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don’t worry unduly about whether they’ll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.
What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.
I do not support the idea of defunding police departments. I believe that it does nothing to solve the root problems we must address and it makes our communities less safe.
What you get at the BMI Workshop is the rarest commodity in New York City: Friendly criticism; people who genuinely root for you; and a chance to rewrite your work, try it again, and hone your craft.
Tim Tebow is the kind of unsung hero we can all root for, an underdog who is all too often ignored by the fans and media.
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
Bill Belichick makes it real easy for you to root against the Patriots.
I have always just experimented, and I come from a very ancient, acoustic root. It was very hard to put a finger on me.
True terrorism, you know, weaponized fear. In defense of ourselves, we’re fighting – actively fighting something else. But if you’re going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism.
Everyone wants to root for the underdog.
A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level.
Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself.
I can’t be the Mayor of L.A. I hate the Dodgers. I’m a Yankee fan. Yankee fans can’t ever root for the Dodgers.
I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
Britain is now living with the consequences of allowing an underclass to take root and fester.
It’s frustrating that you only have one or two, maybe three drivers that you can root for who are winning.
The Latin root of ‘precariousness’ is ‘to obtain by prayer.’ The precariat must ask for favours, for charity, to show obsequiousness, to plead with figures of authority. It is degrading and stigmatizing.
Antiheroes who are sort of honest to themselves are the ones you root for. Like, Barry Seal isn’t trying to be anything other than he is. He isn’t fooling anybody per se.
I root for good, clean basketball.
Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.
For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.
I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is – who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in ‘Sicario’ and feel it was the strength of the script – guiding the audience’s allegiance toward the villain because they think he’s the hero, until it’s revealed that he’s the villain.
The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.
After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?
I’m always curious how we sometimes have a different point of view when it comes to justice. And that’s why people root for ‘Dexter.’
Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one… If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.
I would say, for me, flamenco is so pure, so raw. I love pop culture but sometimes I miss the root, the rawness.
In the industrial world we have the problem of having more productive capacity than we know what to do with. That’s at the root of the unemployment crisis: we’ve got so productive at making things, we don’t require people to be involved in making the basics of life any more. Or nearly as many people.
Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.
I never bet against anyone. If people do something that has a true purpose, and they do it with boldness, I root for them.
Professional wrestling, when you’re talking money, like they say, it’s the root of all evil.
Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don’t have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.
