Far too many athletes have been unable to let go of their troubled roots or just have failed to fully understand their new lives and what’s expected of them.
I’m like a tree. My leaves might change color, but my roots are the same.
When you start a band like we did – we started with pretty pop-punk roots – the whole plan is to get out of the whole town and to make something of yourself.
However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
We don’t want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming – once again – a launching pad for international terrorism.
I grew up on a farm in eastern Tennessee with a very southern lifestyle, so my roots are super country and southern, but my first concert was Britney Spears. I think that you can hear both of those influences in my music.
I love guys who have roots. Paul Pierce has roots embedded in Boston.
We should not ignore or isolate our roots, no matter where we stay.
‘Waking the Fallen’ truly encompasses everything that Avenged Sevenfold was at that time. It was us being fearless, us showing our roots in heavy metal, punk, rock n’ roll, and not being afraid to try everything under the sun when it comes to writing music.
The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.
I’ve been in thousands of conversations dripping with misogyny. I’ve initiated many of those conversations myself. From my fraternity roots to my bachelor days in New York, I know I have not always shown up in ways that I am proud of.
We need a clear plan to put radical Islamic terrorism out of vogue, and it should be eliminated at its roots. American SOF are part of the puzzle, but they do not, by themselves, complete the picture.
At the roots, people are still people. That’s why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language.
We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution.
Either I am rootless or I have my roots spread out so much that I cannot spot my primary root. I believe in Camus’ philosophy – It is important to be a traveller without a baggage.
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.
As far as I’m concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
I’m very attached to my roots, but I feel Italian more than anything else.
Growing up in east Tennessee gave me my country roots, my twang, and a lot of my stories.
‘Roots’ did show that the audience would be receptive to black talent and a black story.
The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
I try to stay very, very true to my roots and my lifestyle and I wanted to be able to share that with my fans.
I’m a Puerto Rican woman whose family has roots in Regla de Ocha, also known as Santeria.
Every ethnic group has a mythology… Until ‘Roots’… there was nothing in the popular culture to refute the paragraph in elementary school history class that said, ‘Slaves picked the cotton, were happy and life wasn’t so bad.’
For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe’s Christian roots was the driving force.
All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture – community, hard work, perseverance, respect – contribute directly to our success.
I’m quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
My philosophy as a filmmaker is to inform and entertain at the same time. And when I went away from documentaries into miniseries like ‘Roots,’ I did the reverse. Instead of just entertaining, I want to inform at the same time.
Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.
Eric Clapton was such a great player. He sounds like he’s Freddie King or someone like that. He plays the roots of blues and Delta blues. He really affected me with the way that he plays, because he never really plays that many notes.
The Arab spring was not as radical as the French or Iranian revolutions. It did not pull out the deeply entrenched roots of the state. Instead, it was satisfied to replace the top of the pyramid with newly elected, but inexperienced, leaders.
Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country’s heritage, but the dance speaks to everyone… Otherwise, it wouldn’t work.
I was impressed by a program called New Roots, which helps women refugees from countries in conflict to start new lives in the U.S. by farming. They are trained in a four-year program, at the end of which New Roots helps them find their own land to farm and live on.
‘Eagle vs Shark’ was about keeping myself sane. I wanted to go back to my comedy roots with people I trusted and had worked with before and do something low-budget and more experimental.
I keep my feet on the ground because of my roots and the way I was raised.
What’s wrong with social climbing? What’s wrong with trying to improve your lot in life? And if you do, what happens if your family doesn’t? Is that betraying your roots? Are you being dishonest? I had a really good job, and it paid really well. Am I supposed to quit it out of loyalty to my parents?
Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.
Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left.
The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.
My roots allow me to let go of the fear of failure.
I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.
My roots in electronic music go from weird glitch music to now what’s seen as pop music. Electronic music is pop music now.
The two lines from ‘Roots’ that stick out to me are, ‘You no more in Africa. You in America now,’ and what I said after Kunta escaped: ‘What is it like to be free, Kunta? It must be something.’
I love anything to do with cooking, from watching the Food Network to reading recipe books by Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver and Levi Roots. My favourite types of cuisine are Asian and Caribbean, and I love cooking new recipes for my family.
I’m an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I’ve been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.
The point of psychoanalysis is to really understand the roots of your behavior. Understand why you are doing the things you’re doing – and connect your unconscious to your conscious.
Of course, I have been influenced by my Punjabi and Hariyanvi roots.
If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.
It’s our roots that really give us our identity.
Yoga can get at the roots of issues that cause behaviors leading to obesity, heart disease, and stress.
The antidote to the malaise and distrust that led to the rise of Trump is total civic engagement: working together from the grass roots, block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood, to implement progressive policies that build a fairer city for all.
If the story-teller is to nourish the roots of his culture, society must set him free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
You can become quite blase, and also, I have no sense of home; I don’t have roots. I’ve never had that feeling that someone else is going to take care of me, ever. I don’t trust people.
I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.
It’s important to evolve without ever straying too far from your roots and what established you.
I don’t think I’ve ever spoken to anyone who’s told me that the story of ‘Roots’ isn’t important.
I’m half Egyptian, and I’m Muslim. But I grew up in Canada, far from my Arab roots. Like so many who straddle East and West, I’ve been drawn, over the years, to try to better understand my origins.
I’m a campaigner for grass roots because I am a product of the grass roots system and I would like every child to have the same opportunities I was lucky enough to enjoy.
