Roots Quotes
Where people come from, and what pulls them back.
These quotes describe roots as both a personal foundation - stand-up comedy as one performer's origin story - and a cultural tie worth revisiting, like returning to a hometown left behind to reconnect with its people. See Family quotes for related themes.
And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses - and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking...
My roots are in classical music and jazz, and I want the freedom of being able to improvise. This freedom is possible only in a live concert.
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There was a lot of aggression in me. It comes from my Bihari roots, I guess.
Always Quotes
Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.
I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.
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.
Country Quotes
When I'd go to Israel, I felt like a tourist. My social and professional ties had started to dissolve, and it confused me. I didn't know whether I should stay here in Paris or go back to Israel, or even...
I am a fan of today's sound as long as we don't get too slick, and yet I am very reverent of my roots.
What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.
Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.
Family Quotes
When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.
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...
Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Feel Quotes
My wife and I have very deep roots in Colorado, and we can't see ourselves living anywhere else.
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