Roots Quotes - Page 30

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

  Questlove

  Thinking, Tonight, Shows

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• Always root for the winner. That way you won't be disappointed.

  Tug McGraw

  Way, Winner, Disappointed

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• Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.

  Ieyasu Tokugawa

  Forever, Forbearance, Assurance

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• Whenever the cloud of ego threatens to engulf me, I remind myself of my roots. It helps keeping my feet on the ground.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Feet, Clouds, Ego

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• Christianity was neither original nor unique, but that the roots of much of the Judeo/ Christian tradition lay in the prevailing Kamite (ancient Egyptian) culture of the region. We are faced with the inescapable realization that if Jesus had been able to read the documents of old Egypt, he would have been amazed to find his own biography already substantially written some four or five thousand years previously.

  Gerald Massey

  Christian, Jesus, Unique

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• Obey God in all things today! Drive out the enemy! Lay the ax to the root of the tree, and the capacity for Jesus Christ will be increased tomorrow.

  Alan Redpath

  Jesus, Tree, Enemy

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• It’s hard not to root for Henrik Lundqvist, he’s practically perfect.

  Mike Milbury

  Perfect, Hard

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• Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate in those decisions that affect my life and the lives of my children. It means that I am somebody.

  Whitney M. Young

  Children, Mean, Pride

  "Character: Whitney Young". "Independent Lens", TV Series, www.imdb.com. (1999– ).

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• Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the dance, on a tiny stage, of the living, speaking hand - and its roots reach into living soil, though its branches may be hung each year with new machines. So long as the root lives, typography remains a source of true delight, true knowledge, true surprise.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Independent, Hands, Years

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• Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers. It allows articulation to enter where silence once ruled.

  Lewis Hyde

  Mean, Simple, Silence

  Lewis Hyde (2010). “Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art”, p.432, Macmillan

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• Christian optimism is not a sugary optimism, nor is it a mere human confidence that everything will turn out all right. It is an optimism that sinks its roots into an awareness of our freedom, and the sure knowledge of the power of grace. It is an optimism that leads us to make demands on ourselves, to struggle to respond at every moment to God's call.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Christian, Struggle, Optimism

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• At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems of works-righteousness. The way to progress as a Christian is to continually repent and uproot these systems the same way we become Christians, namely by the vivid depiction (and re-depiction) of Christ’s saving work for us, and the abandoning of self-trusting efforts to complete ourselves. We must go back again and again to the gospel of Christ-crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what he did and who we are in him.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Heart, Reality

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• Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.

  Rumi

  Essence, Unseen, World

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• And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

  Rumi

  Winter, Garden, Thinking

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• The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

  Willie Dixon

  American Music

  Willie Dixon, Don Snowden (1989). “I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story”

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• I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

  Alan Bennett

  Writing, Play, Mind

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• I agree with Clyde Wilson that America can’t be saved or returned to its roots until the Republican Party is destroyed.

  Thomas DiLorenzo

  Party, America, Republican

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• Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.

  Henry Vaughan

  Running, Home, Men

  Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• It is my assumption that growth in faith is the root of all spiritual growth and is prior to all disciplines of works. True spirituality is not a superhuman religiosity; it is simply true humanity released from bondage to sin and renewed by the Holy Spirit. This is given to us as we grasp by faith the full content of Christ's redemptive work: freedom from the guilt and power of sin, and newness of life through the indwelling and outpouring of his Spirit.

  Richard Lovelace

  Spiritual, Discipline, Humanity

  "Dynamics of Spiritual Life".

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• It is an item of faith that we are children of God; there is plenty of experience in us against it. The faith that surmounts this evidence and is able to warm itself at the fire of God's love, instead of having to steal love and self-acceptance from other sources, is actually the root of holiness: It is a fatal mistake to think of holiness as a possession which we have distinct from our faith... Faith is the very highest form of our dependence on God.

  Richard Lovelace

  Children, Acceptance, Exercise

  "Dynamics of Spiritual Life".

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• It says, I think, that at root that we're children, or we'd like to be. And the best of us each keep as much of that childhood with us as we grow into adulthood, as we can muster... And even after we're past the point of being able to play the game with any skill, if we love it, then it's like Peter Pan - we remain boys forever, we don't die.

  John Thorn

  Children, Boys, Past

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• The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch.

  Julius Streicher

  Devil, Branches, Fitting

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• Network marketing is really the greatest source of grass-roots capitalism, because it teaches people how to take a small bit of capital, that is your time, and build the American dream.

  Jim Rohn

  Dream, People, Marketing

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• It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work in the world is done by men who never taste anything but vegetable, farinaceous food, and that of the simplest kind. There are more strength-producing properties in wholemeal flour, peas, beans, lentils, oatmeal, roots, and other vegetables of the same class, than there are beef or mutton, poultry or fish, or animal food of any description whatever.

  Catherine Booth

  Men, Animal, Oatmeal

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• The therapist does not treat patients by simply giving them another set of beliefs. He or she tries to help them see which kinds of ideas and beliefs have led to their suffering. Many patients want to get rid of their painful feelings, but they do not want to get rid of their beliefs, the viewpoints that are the very roots of their feelings.

  Nhat Hanh

  Painful Feelings, Ideas, Giving

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