The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God..

People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are..

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives..

My cultural roots are something illusive..

In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason an….

I think all of this—The Roots and DJing included—was meant to prepare me for The Tonight Show..

Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a price. ….

Nobody can ask us to abjure our fascist roots..

Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on..

If you forget your roots, you've lost sight of everything.

I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are quite lost in many ways. And we live in ….

People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but….

Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward cank….

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper..

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow..

More hearts are breaking in this world of ours Than one would say. In distant villages And solitudes remote, where winds have wafted The barbed seeds….

Active people to revitalize what is really the root of democracy: citizens communicating with each other. Democracy is not just about voting, it's ab….

[Bob] Dylan's many quotations from classic American roots music (that song is from an album aptly titled Love and Theft) join the aging poet to a tra….

Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard - its profo….

As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, ….

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….