Top 1200 Roots And Wings Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
I'm gonna be real everywhere I go, but I'm with my people, I'm connected to my roots - I'm in my country! I don't need to live somewhere else.
In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.
The roots of apple were to build computers for people, not for corporations. The world doesn't need another dell or compaq.
My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.
Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.
Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.
The failure of the U.S.'s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.'s total ignorance of things on the ground, of the countries that they fiddle with.
Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.
Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life.
The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.
England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots.
Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.
Even if you want to try out something new, that should not be done without losing your roots.
If the future's looking dark, We're the ones who have to shine. If there's no one in control, We're the ones who draw the line. Though we live in trying times, We're the ones who have to try. And we know that time has wings, So we're the ones who have to fly.
I like to watch a lot of Kevin Durant, Brandon Ingram and Giannis Antetokounmpo - those tall lanky wings that can handle the ball and shoot it.
There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating.
I've become a functioning cog in the machine called The Roots, but in my youth I was comin' from a more braggadocious, egotistical perspective.
The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.
[Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we fly with.
Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance.
The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.
He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.
she's wondering how many women are walking around this world feeling the tingling of their amputated wings remembering what it was to fly to sing
My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!
Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings And some are treasured for their markings - They cause the eyes to melt Or the body to shriek without pain.
Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light.
Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.
The best thing I can do is stay on the road and build a grass-roots following. I'm constantly about building my brand.
We are going back to our roots by cultivating new unsigned talent who otherwise might go unnoticed.
I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings.
If you're blessed to do something like 'Roots'... you find yourself immersed. You're asked to do this, to do that - all for admirable causes. But you're just swamped.
My father, who is deeply spiritual and religious, always stressed that my siblings and I remain true to our Indian roots.
Unless you have strong roots in films, music, art, painting, or theatre, you can't talk high and think internationally.
Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us.
The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply
Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.
At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply.
There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings
Whenever I watch the beginning of Jimmy Fallon, I feel like I should sue the Roots for bait and switch.
I was lucky to get one good adaptation. Field of Dreams the Musical is lurking in the wings. Hope it will provide my daughters with a ton of money someday.
As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.
Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.
The naturalist picked up the eagle and said to it, "Thou dost belong to the sky and not to this earth; stretch forth thy wings and fly."
Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. "Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.
Letting the tundra melt is the equivalent to burning all of the forests in all of the world and their roots two and a half times over.
I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that we send them forth to fill The world with good results--or ill.
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.
I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
Dry leaves upon the wall, Which flap like rustling wings and seek escape, A single frosted cluster on the grape Still hangs--and that is all.
Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.
They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!
Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused. But since their wings have got rusted, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.
The bureaucracy has grown such powerful roots in Russia, and corruption is so widespread, that people from opposition have no interest in changing anything.
Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.
