Roots Quotes - Page 59

If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there's a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.

I don't think it had a name when we started. If punk has any roots, Dada is part of it. And we saw ourselves as part of a kind of Dada tradition.

My Hamlet was about as alienated as you can get. Mine was a bitter and lonely prince. Valid, I think, but maybe tough to root for. I think that romance was missing.

I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing

America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.

I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.

I am trying to stay away from this position of me "returning to my roots." As if my roots are that I'm only comfortable working on low-budget, small films. That's not the case at all.

The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.

I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots

Bjork is one of my oldest friends so we share the friendship and common roots. That is what we build on when we work together.

Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.

Poetry has roots, and sometimes they are aerial. Sometimes they are buried.

Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.’ (Talon)

I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.

Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.

Designing a tour is a daily thing. I work on it every day for several months. I’m involved with every department, from lighting, sound, music direction, the visual direction. The set list is something I create myself and that’s the root of everything

There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder!

The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.

Virtue is the panacea for both body and mind. The virtuous person can be both healthy and happy. How is virtue to be cultivated? How can it express itself in daily practice? Through service to living beings, through seva. Virtue must flow through the triple channel of love, mercy and detachment, in order to feed the roots of seva.

Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.

Jared Kushner has sort of betrayed the Democratic roots that his family grew up in.

A digging fork is a stout, short-handled tool with four flat tines about a foot long.... for weeding I use it delicately to nudge the soil loose from roots without breaking them.

...great feeling of enthusiasm..this human component began to fade away, leaving only that supernatural enthusisam which must always be at the root of our perseverance.

English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.