Quotes about Roots

Just to release a rock record with very little help from MTV, and with just touring and radio, I think it's awesome. I think it did a lot better than any of us expected. But we're a touring band. That's where our roots are and we love touring. It's a lot of fun.

Pat Callahan

Winning the grass roots approval of rugby league fans is just as rewarding as receiving accolades from the experts.

Andrew Johns

Blues is the roots, and everything else is the fruits. Just like you can't make soup without water, you can't make music without some element of the blues.

Brad Wheeler

Two great things you can give your children: one is roots, the other is wings.

Hodding Carter

I grew up in Poway and returned when I was done playing. It's one place I always came back to. After I left Boston I realized you never know where you will be so I made my roots back in Poway.

Phil Plantier

Every single attempt has never achieved national dominance of the political system and the reason because they don't have the deep roots in the Israeli ideological system.

Michael Oren

The idea of it is to examine religious issues. They (panelist) are radical in the sense that they go to the roots of the problem.

Alice Mccarthy

A brave man who climbs trees is food for their roots.

Maori Proverb

We want our teachers to get a grass-roots effort. And we have a great relationship with hotels in Las Vegas.

Jennifer Sherron

[Illegal immigration] is an issue of growing concern and even anxiety at the grass roots, ... It's one of those issues where politicians of both parties are trying to catch up with the public.

Roberto Suro

Our roots are here. We're not going anywhere.

Kevin Lowery

Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.

Joseph Goebbels

Microsoft is really going back to its roots here.

Charles Di Bona

'A Prairie Home Companion' has proudly had its roots in St. Paul since the inception of the show. They have scheduled road shows, yet it's important to maintain their place of operation. It's good news for the show and St. Paul.

John Rash

We are thrilled to have this opportunity to return to our roots and create works of art of this historic building. Many of the Club's current efforts to educate the public on traditional fine arts are extensions of programs initiated while the Club resided in the Hollyhock House.

Peter Adams

It's going to take the passage of a new tax. And this is going to take a grass-roots effort through schools.

Dwight Tankersley

Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of jus.

Algernon Sidney

He is proud of his roots. We talked together a lot about his misadventure in the 2002 World Cup, ... Roy is an incredible player.

Mikael Silvestre

A lot of Latinos are first-generation new citizens, or second-generation children of immigrants, who don't have those deep roots of partisan attachment.

Harry Pachon

Legislation is being brought before the state to bring clarity to this industry, which is growing. We are now a booming industry. Because of grass-roots interest, more and more attention is being put on this industry.

Anne Menard

The goal of the competition is to develop some grass-roots interest in the project. We have to get the best idea first, and then we'll see how to make it happen.

Michael Mayer

I mention him oftentimes to grass-roots people who call me and say: 'What are we doing? We don't have a candidate in 2008,' .

Paul Weyrich

I want to return to my roots - to direction. I should make a comeback with a good film before people forget me as a filmmaker.

Ramesh Sippy

They go right to the trunk of the vine to feed and when they do that they infect, and it's a mainline shot to the roots and it kills the vine.

Sam Sebastiani

Ambiguity is Vajpayee's strength, ... His roots are in poetry and literature, and I think that's a big advantage.

Mahesh Rangarajan

The Old Testament prophets and the apostles of the New Testament all declared that in the end of days, God would restore Zion. We believe that the physical and spiritual restoration of Zion is the last day move of God. Thus, one of our primary goals is to teach, along with other Biblical concepts, the Jewish roots of our Christian faith.

Bill Cloud

My dad wanted me to name him after myself, but we really wanted to name him something that gave him some roots. We wanted something to tie him into where his family's from.

Richard Reed

It's really comprehensive. I wasn't familiar with early science fiction. It's cool to see the roots of sci-fi.

Brian Anderson

Farming is where we started and our roots are still in farming. But our loan portfolio has become very diversified.

Rich Halverson

It looks like they are going back to their roots as more of a power running team with some wishbone and option thrown in. This will definitely be a challenge for our run defense.

Mike Redwine

Come outside and walk with me, we'll try each other on to see if we fit, and with our roots become a tree, to shade what we make under it.

Brandon Boyd

Swedish health care is a complex system that has arisen from the country's own historical roots. Campbell is cherry-picking for- profit models to serve his own privatization agenda, rather than looking at how the system functions overall. For example, less than 10% of Swedish physicians are in private practice.

Joyce Jones

In other states, they're passionate; they're not embarrassed by their agricultural roots.

Frank Muir

Like many who feel exiled, it is a primal requirement to return to your roots. And this project has built that bridge for me.

Aamir Khan

The annual meeting used to last eight hours. I think we've come up with a pretty elegant solution. Now we can get to the grass-roots shareholders without a lot of contrived filibustering.

Toni Simonetti

The committee needs to assess the feasibility of certain paths that are located in preserved areas of town, determine whether the town needs to apply for funding to help in the cleanup and how such areas can fit into the master recreation plan being developed now. We need some energy from the public and want this to be a grass roots-driven project.

Wendy Rubin

His support will be invaluable. He has a fabulous grass roots organization that is going to help tell our story.

Jane Campbell

We feel the Lord asked us to go to Rwanda, stay there and put our roots down deep to become part of the community.

Charles Parr

I haven't done any major fund-raising efforts. It's a local election. It should be grass roots.

Rae Waters

We see a lot of parallels. We have similar roots in many respects . . . and we think alike on the issues we are talking about in this campaign. I believe we can strike the same chords and win the election in the same way.

Bill Ritter

I am now finding more and more journalists saying, 'It has taken a tragedy of enormous proportions, but maybe, maybe we are returning to our roots,' and those roots are in the business of information, not entertainment.

Jim Lehrer

Cellar Roots has great potential. We want to continue publishing EMU students' writing and artwork. It is important as a resume builder as well as a source for gaining writing and publishing experience. It is an important part of our mission to continue doing this.

Jennifer Armstrong

The governor has always said that a healthy debate is a good thing for our party. He looks forward to going to the convention, speaking at the convention and meeting with all the grass-roots Republicans who have helped him since the recall.

Adam Mendelsohn

Wayne is a natural leader of the Roots athletics team, Team Roots, and a great ambassador for our company. Both on and off the ice, he exemplifies the best of Canada and the Canadian and Olympic heritage of Roots.

Michael Budman

It's controversial because when they started they told us it was a grass-roots effort and would be done entirely by volunteers in the community.

Larry Pearson

She's very loyal to her family and to her roots, and she wanted to stay home.

Todd Hoffman

There has to be a more satisfactory answer than let's do more of the same. It's a bit of folly to say people don't put down roots and aren't needed in these jobs.

Angela Kelley

The northern hill tribes burn rain forests so the land makes better grazing, ... Without tree roots there, it allows erosion.

Sherry Davis

I think it's a no-brainer for him if that's something he wants to do. He graduated up there and has roots there. We're happy with him and would like to keep him. We'll do what we can to keep him, but sometimes that's not possible.

Mike Jacobsen

My fondest hope is that "Roots" may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.

Alex Haley

This shifting of water by roots has a physiological effect on the plants, letting them pull more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they conduct more photosynthesis. Because this has not been considered until now, people have likely underestimated the amount of carbon taken up by the Amazon and underestimated the impact of Amazonian deforestation on climate.

Todd Dawson

They're the filthiest bird out there. They strip the golf course areas to the roots. But there ought to be a more humane way than just shooting them.

Derrick Daniels

I first noticed the trees, swaying in the wind, and then I saw, or maybe I heard, one being twisted from its roots. That's when I knew something bad was coming.

George Austin

What excites me most about working for Newell Rubbermaid is the opportunity to return to my roots in the durable goods industry, and to apply the skills I've learned in the 'new economy' to an area that I know and love best.

Joe Galli

There are optimistic signs in northeast Arkansas. Typically, conservatives [in northeast Arkansas ] carry the Democratic candidates. We need to push a grass-roots organization. We have to do a better job of getting our candidates out.

Clint Reed

It was his roots. He was a deeply spiritual man, more spiritual than anyone around him.

Murray Walker

Driver: Parallel Lines returns to its original franchise roots with a very heavy focus on driving, including unmatched driving physics. With its fast-paced driving, top-notch soundtrack, and a new storyline and cast of characters, Driver: Parallel Lines will be the Hollywood-style action driving game fans have been clamoring for.

Gareth Edmondson

The lower court must now confront the real merits of this case ... that there is no constitutional justification for prohibiting grass-roots lobbying about upcoming votes in Congress, just because we are in an election season.

James Bopp

Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.

Victor Hugo

He's a definite asset out here, ... His fresh attitude, he appreciates everything. Being a success out here, winning a tournament, is not going to change him. He remembers his roots.

Dave Stockton

We know the recruiting areas and who we recruit against. I think those are definitely advantages for those of us with Midwest roots.

Tom Sims

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.

Byron R. White

You are the grass roots. The grass roots now have a face and a name.

Travis Moore

The hurricane created a crisis, but the roots of the problem are much deeper than that.

Robert Mabro

What's happening with AJAX itself is it's catching on like wildfire at the grass roots.

Ray Valdes

Judicial work at the grass-roots level has bearings on the overall situation of the judicial work of the country.

Luo Gan

At first, it was more of a grass-roots operation. What I see, and this is my opinion in the way the organization is now running, is that we will increase money being given directly to athletes.

Bob Condron

This music is like an old friend, one for whom you will always feel a kinship and closeness. When people hear this recording they will understand more clearly the roots of our original songs and perhaps have a bit more insight into where they really came from.

John Oates

The migration to GSM has its roots in the company's owners and in the fact that they are operating GSM in almost all the countries where they are present.

Roberto Gurovich

The tree was two feet in diameter and part of the roots were uprooted, it was such a significant impact.

James Hughes

We had an interesting pool of highly qualified candidates; interviewed four finalists; and are extremely pleased to recommend Liz to serve as the director, ... She knows the organization, has deep roots in the community, and displays great organizational skills. She has all the qualities we were looking for.

Steve Palmer

We were interested in the case of interacting atoms in which the roots of the polynomials -- that is the location of the quantized vortices -- form a regular array. To our surprise we noticed that even for strictly non-interacting atoms, a local order of the vortex distribution remained.

Jean Dalibard

I believe racism is at the roots of this. Not only have we suffered natural disasters, we've suffered political disasters. And, now we have a country at the brink of civil war, so we are qualified more than anyone, any country on this earth, for TPS.

Marleine Bastien

If you don't start them young, they have no roots.

Donald Walker

This is a neighborhood where people put down roots and stay.

Linda Westergaard

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams

We want Cellar Roots to be here another 35 years and to still fulfill our basic mission yet adapt to changes.

Jennifer Armstrong

Remained true to his roots and beliefs.

Rhodri Morgan

The album is kind of hard to compare to our previous work. Our stuff in the past has been very rock 'n' roll and punk pop. We definitely elaborated on what people would expect from us. The new songs are very new and different. We definitely kept the roots so you see flavors of that.

Laura Baca

I advocate that we look within. Leadership without deep roots in the community isn't as sympathetic to our wants and needs.

Brian Millard

I'm pleased to honor our heritage by joining The History Channel en espanol to bring the history and culture of our people to the U.S. Hispanic market and to America, ... Our history defines and strengthens us. It is important that our children know our roots and that we celebrate our heroes not just during this month, but throughout the year.

Alejandro Fernandez

[Observers feel the magazine's spiraling problems mirror a central struggle within hip hop itself.] The roots of the music are very 'street', ... But that has to get along with its newer role, which is very big business.

Minya Oh

It's recovering an important piece of cultural history. It's so much of the roots of what we think of as dance today.

Dayna Goldfine

It feels good. It really does. It feels good because you want the film to have a life. You want it to put its roots down and become a fixture of the culture, and these are indicators that the film will last and that it will reach people and that's what you hope for, so I'm really pleased about it.

Bennett Miller

I hate to sound corny when I use the word but -- where my roots are.

Michael Chitwood

The old-timers knew where their roots were, where they got their start and they like to interact with the people.

Bill Diller

We learned that if you organize at the grass roots, you can beat the big boys.

Carolyn Boyle

What excites me about the Patrick campaign is they understand that the Internet is not simply raising money, but also energizing the grass-roots and getting people excited about the candidate.

Richard Rowe

Roots are acting like conduits for water connecting deep ground or soil water reserves to the shallow soil water.

Todd Dawson

We stand firmly against (terrorism) not only militarily with security forces, but also with an ideological plan dealing with the causes and roots of those who joined the evil-doers.

Saud Al faisal

Even without political power or economic power, you can still tap into raw people power. Grass-roots activism and policy working hand-in-hand are necessary for the transformation of our earth.

Randy Hayes

Like one tree, roots are the same.

Habeeb Ahmed

Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls.

Jane Goodall

He's able to talk to anybody, whether it's a grass roots advocate, a member of Congress or of the (Bush) administration, ... And he not only talks but he acts.

Jerry Reed

But we at Roots and Shoots do not have that kind of administrative clout or technical expertise. Instead, we try to do what we can to help the children.

Manoj Gautam

There have been a couple movements to get one. But it takes a lot of grass-roots effort to get a brand-new center.

Renee Donahue

It was astounding. It wasn't the professional activist class; it was grass-roots people who heard about it on TV and radio.

Bill Vandenberg

[Country : Dolly Parton continues her roots revival with] Those Were the Days, ... Tough All Over.

Gary Allan

The game was over because my dad had died and I didn't have to fight him anymore, ... I could go back to my academic roots. The battle with him was over.

Mark Stevens

We came in cold turkey and it was mind blowing how similar our work was. Our cultural roots were imbued in all the work.

Licia Perea