Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I’ve got no idea.
I go stay a week in these little towns that don’t have an art outlet and… go to the schools and play some of the old Texas music, sort of ‘go through the Texas country roots’ is what they call it.
My roots are still in Britain, that’s where I live, that’s the place where I come from.
The models that the other parties have used where you have a very powerful leader squashing any kind of independent ideas from the grass roots is not very attractive to the electorate.
Two years passed, and I had no second book to follow ‘Roots.’ Four years passed, six years. When a decade had passed without me having another book to follow ‘Roots,’ I was having serious private frustrations with myself.
I never traced my roots, man. I only know that I’m a brother with a big heart – and that somebody brought my roots over here by way of boat.
I had no idea if ‘No Roots’ was going to work or not.
Over the course of my life, I have made many transitions – most of them taking me further away from my Somali roots and steadily toward the enlightened mentality of Western democracy.
Our country is an agriculture-based country. And slowly, we are forgetting our roots.
The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles – decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots – create a ceaseless buzz.
I belong in America more than South Africa. I can’t remember the feeling of living there anymore. It’s like it was in another life. That’s sad in a way. It is my country. It’s where I grew up. You don’t know what it’s like to have these negative feelings about your homeland. There are roots you can’t escape.
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
The fact of leaving one’s country, one’s family, one’s roots, can be painful. My father had already found his place, but for us, for my mother, it was very difficult to get our bearings.
Since we’ve come to Charlotte, we very quickly realized that this is home. This community quickly embraced our family, so we put down roots here. We love it here. This is home for us.
Nagasaki and Hiroshima remind us to put peace first every day; to work on conflict prevention and resolution, reconciliation, and dialogue; and to tackle the roots of conflict and violence.
I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.
I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.
It’s been really cool to me to watch someone like Sam Hunt, whose lyrics and roots are in country but you can hear that he listens to Drake and Justin Timberlake – and that’s OK. It allows songwriters to be more honest because it’s like, ‘This is who I’m listening to.’
My roots are in Chicago, and ensuring the West Pullman community has the greatest potential to improve long-term health, wellness, economic, and social outcomes is a personal mission.
Roots’ was the first album on which I recorded a berimbau. After that, I recorded it a bunch for Soulfly and other projects. I really enjoy the instrument even though it’s only one string. It’s really unique-sounding. It’s very striking, and you know right away that it’s a berimbau – it’s one of a kind.
I spent time living in Ethiopia, learning about the cultural importance of coffee and its roots in Ethiopia.
My roots were in acting. That’s all I wanted to be. Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn’t cool to say, at a young age, ‘I want to be a comedian.’
Without its roots in reality, I don’t think escapism can survive.
Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.
Traditions are our roots and a profile of who we are as individuals and who we are as a family. They are our roots, which give us stability and a sense of belonging – they ground us.
For the young, and those newly introduced to Australia, milkbars represented an opportunity to dip a toe in the water when it came to discovering Australian food culture at a grass roots level.
I’m a very spiritual person, and proud of my Mormon roots.
My introduction of Whitney was that if there’s going to be one performer for the next generation who combined the beauty and lyric phrasing of a Lena Horne with those Gospel fiery roots of an Aretha Franklin, it would be Whitney Houston.
People wonder why I love Africa so much. I say this is where I was born and raised. My roots are in Africa; that’s were I developed.
I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.
We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.
I know my roots and I cannot forget the journey I made.
I really haven’t strayed too far, musically, from my roots.
Organized groups claiming roots in religious ideologies have unleashed an all-pervasive fear of mob violence in many parts of the country.
A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.
My interest in science had many roots. Some came from my mother as she finished her B.A. degree studies in college while I was in my early teens.
When you have your own kid, it suddenly makes you more aware of how your parents treated you and educated you. Your relationships with your partner, your uncles, your mother all change; you’re more conscious of where you came from, of where your roots are. I find that very interesting.
I think it’s often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It questions the established order of the mind. It is radical, by which I don’t mean that it is either leftwing or rightwing, but that it works at the roots of thinking.
I can’t name a single issue with roots in race that doesn’t have economic implications, and I cannot think of a single economic issue that doesn’t have racial implications. The idea that we have to separate them out and choose one is a con.
You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don’t even know who The Who is. It’s like, where have you been? Justin Timberlake? C’mon. Where are the roots?
Like a lot of young people growing up in the middle of nowhere, I was desperate to leave my small town behind, but music reconnected me to my roots.
When we play live, we go back to our punk roots.
Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots.
Although I was raised in Canada and the U.K., my roots are in Egypt through my father, in a family line that stretches back generations and runs along the Nile, from the concrete of Cairo to the coast of Alexandria.
I’m proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it’s important for me to tell people where I’m from.
I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make it country. I don’t want to go too far away from it, or I would do pop music.
I grew up in The Bronx. I mean, I was born and raised in New York City. And I started singing in Spanish because I was always just connected to my Latin roots.
When President Obama took office, I was transitioning out of the military and just seeing that he was taking the country in a direction that I didn’t think was consistent with the Founding Fathers and with our constitutional roots.
Like Hillary Clinton in the United States, Kuczynski is a prototypical member of the trans-American governing class, with deep roots in both the private and public sector and its revolving-door relationship between Washington think tanks, the State Department, and high-level Latin American ministries.
I’m in great company and some may say that the underexposure has added to my allure and the staying power of me as a MC and The Roots as a band.
They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep – they will shoot up again!
The fans in Canada have been there since day one. They’re the originals. When people say that’s your roots, that’s literally my roots. I’ve just cut this tree off and replanted it somewhere else and it started growing. But the roots are there.
Today we take New England clam chowder as something traditional that makes our roots as American cooking very solid, with a lot of foundation. But the first person who decided to mix potatoes and clams and bacon and cream, in his own way 100 to 200 years ago, was a modernist.
Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.
It’s not enough to just be a good singer. You have to know where your roots come from. If you sing jazz, you should know all about jazz. You should look into, as much as you possibly can, the history of it, so that you’re and educated and well-informed performer.
Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It’s the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning.
It’s really cheesy, but basically, ‘Roots’ got me to find out my own roots.
