Top 499 Roots Quotes

May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.
Otto Wallach
I manage every player as well as I possibly can, regardless of which club they’re from, what their roots are.
Gareth Southgate
Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
Yotam Ottolenghi
As scary as it is, we have to admit that there are folks in the world who only know the Roots as ‘the band on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”
Phoebe Robinson
I feel that no one should be ashamed or have fear or doubt within themselves when they speak about the roots or Africa wherein I and I originate from. It’s like an individual who tries to disown himself, and to me, it is a form of defeat by disowning yourself.
Burning Spear
Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble – has been one of the roots at any rate – is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.
John Harvey Kellogg
Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it’s just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the ‘hood don’t need no private jet.
Chuck D
The Young Women’s Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it’s been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity.
Patricia Ireland
I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.
Henry Miller
I never want to lose sight of my roots… A lot of artists want the riches and the fame. I want to tell stories you can put into the context of your life.
Lukas Forchhammer
Being a Telugu girl, my heart always roots for Tollywood.
Sobhita Dhulipala
We couldn’t predict what would happen with ‘Roots.’ You knew there were powerful moments that were going to affect people. We were making the film while the book was being completed. We were fortunate because the hardcover book was out and on the best-seller list. The heat was still on.
David L. Wolper
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
The Roots are well-respected and considered vanguards in the music.
Black Thought
I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.

I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.
Oral Roberts
In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something – our point of origin, our roots, the home country – is out there.
Bobbie Ann Mason
It is nice to go down the memory lane and remember who I am and what my roots are.
Amala Akkineni
What a miracle life is and how alike are all souls when they send their roots down deep and meet and are one!
Nikos Kazantzakis
To have real success and roots in a society, there has to be a local champion, and hence we believe in identifying a local entrepreneur.
Masayoshi Son
Theater was definitely part of my roots. My father would take me to plays, and then my mother was always on the lookout for other talent and taking me to see plays. I saw Frank Langella in ‘Dracula’… Great, great performances. I was a theater rat, hanging out backstage.
Christian Slater
I think that the campaign that Fox Searchlight has thrown for ‘Sound of My Voice’ honors the film’s roots and the film’s integrity, and I don’t think it overwhelms the film at all.
Zal Batmanglij
First and foremost, I am most proud of how ‘Hee Haw’ did its part to help pave the way for country music to burst from its regional roots to remarkable worldwide popularity.
Roy Clark
We all have those people in high school and college that we shared that important time with, but don’t necessarily keep in touch with. It’s the same thing with the ‘Hills’ crew – they’ll always be a part of my roots but I don’t necessarily talk to them every day.
Whitney Port
One of the things novels should do is shine a light on those parts of us that are common, the fibres that connect all of us. They should convey the sense that we’re all connected, coming from the same tree, sharing common roots.
Khaled Hosseini
‘The Last Kingdom”s got its roots in history, and it’s a lot grittier. It doesn’t have the ‘Game of Thrones’ gloss.
Alexander Dreymon
When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.
Edward Ruscha
Popular culture – above all rock ‘n’ roll, with its African-American R & B roots – did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.
Camille Paglia
I always said that to get India stronger, first strengthen its roots, and all our roots are our country’s interiors, rural areas, and villages.
Raveena Tandon
Let us not forget, the financial crisis had its roots in the decision by Congress to embark on a course of social justice to get everyone that wanted a home into one, regardless of whether or not they could afford it.
Ed Royce
It’s not that I don’t like American pop; I’m a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?
Kate Bush
My roots go back to West Africa, but my last name is Kirby, which is not an African name.
Malachi Kirby
I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
V. S. Naipaul
We can’t fix the real problems if we only cauterize and don’t treat the roots of evil.
Emmanuel Macron
I underestimated the low level of capacity. I also underestimated the cultural roots of corruption.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
I have deep family roots in Western Kentucky.
Andy Beshear
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Victor Hugo
My ancestors come from a part of southern China where most villages can trace their roots back at least a thousand years or even more. However, as a typical American, I have lived in four cities and moved at least seven times.
Laurence Yep
I work well within The Roots because I can let my music speak for itself while Ahmir does most of the press and the promotion and the brand-building because he enjoys that.
Black Thought
Actually, it doesn’t matter to the papers why you left Glasgow. They never look at the roots of the problems you had, and you simply end up being painted as un-nationalistic.
Jimmy Somerville
The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.
Peter Davison
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
Harold Taylor
The Roots brand is like the Lipton of hip-hop, so to speak.
Black Thought
I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they’re kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and… my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring.
Fred Willard
I work hard, and I haven’t done badly in life. But I pretty much came from very modest roots… I go home on my train; I cut my own grass… I don’t have anything against people that are more elite, but it’s just not who I am or what I’m about.
Rick Santelli
I want to take IBM back to its roots.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as

I’d definitely be up for ‘EastEnders.’ Just the same as I would if ‘Coronation Street’ was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
Jack Wild
I’m still true to my Southern roots.
Randy Jackson
My family in St. Louis brings me to my roots.
Phyllis Smith
I always think of a show like a plant – a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn’t pull it out and chop the roots up.
Len Goodman
We don’t try to please everyone. Those older fans who expect something from The Roots are a tad more important to me than getting new fans.
Black Thought
To me, the whole thing with the roots of rap music was when the DJ had to supply all the music for the group with two turntables. And the whole criteria of what that DJ would use had nothing to do with what type of band made a record.
Mike D
The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures.
Ivor Novello
My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.
Oprah Winfrey
Unilever brings together the resources and experience of a multinational company alongside our deep local roots, which enables us to grow a genuinely African consumer goods business.
Paul Polman
I understand people want to hold on to their roots.
Mariah Carey
For more than 300 years Qawwali music and Sufism have been deeply anchored in my family’s roots and we spread it around to the public.
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providing hundreds of thousands of examples, specimens, and proofs of the supreme resurrection.
Said Nursi
I come from a time when every kid dressed up. Everybody. If you didn’t, you wouldn’t be able to hang out. It was very tribal. There’s nice things in that. It’s culture; it’s roots for me.
Paul Weller
I get very sentimental, I get very nostalgic, and when I live in a place, I instantly put down way too many roots.
Casey Affleck
The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists – I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.
Ted Cruz
I suspect that living 24/7 in workout attire is the clothing version of the messy topknot. We all know that your hair is dirty, or too long, or too frizzy, or your roots have grown out, but we are all going to accept it as fabulous because that’s the deal.
Mary H.K. Choi