Top 1200 Roots And Wings Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.

I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.

I like to see people reaching back for the roots and for the reason why. Not intellectually, but just for the gut feeling of what it's all about.

Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.

When I was in college, the Roots, the sui generis ensemble from Philadelphia encompassing all manner of black music, played a show on campus.

Use thy duties, as Noah's dove did her wings, to carry thee to the ark of the Lord Jesus Christ, where only there is rest.

When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness

In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

The mind is complicated and you can't trace the roots of its processes, but there is something about mathematical and algorithmic patterns that I like to recognize in things.

As scary as it is, we have to admit that there are folks in the world who only know the Roots as 'the band on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.''

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.

These are roots of all evil, hatred and greed, for money, for the construction and for the sale of weapons. This should make us all think, who is behind it all?

Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.

Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work.

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.

Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

If you have feet, walk! If you have wings, fly! Whatever you have, use them! Don't let them to rust!

I've always been a bit of a lost soul, and I think that goes back to me being adopted and not knowing my roots.

My hands resemble some ancient tree: the roots that bind up the earth, the rock and the ceaselessly nibbling wordms.

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

The Unified races are so much fun and take you back to the roots of why you started snowboarding. It makes you feel grateful for all that you have.

Negative feelings are like weeds. If you don't fully extract them (i.e. pull out the roots), they will come back.

In my period at Chelsea, I was sometimes the one who switched sides because we were playing with two left-footed guys on the wings with myself and Damian Duff.

To get the adrenaline pumping between events - or to help me switch off, Jay Z, the Roots and Drake are on my playlist.

Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

When I started picking out music for myself, I was a hip-hop kid. DMX, The Roots, Outkast, people like that.

Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and "ideas," and to plant their roots firmly in the earth.

When I thought of Eric with someone else, I wanted to rip out all his beautiful blonde hair. By the roots. In clumps.

The notion of someone who is fitting in or trying to become part of a larger family... It's hard to separate that from my own Jewish roots.

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

When I was in high school and first starting to drive by myself, I listened to Wu Tang in the car, and I recognized their soul and R&B roots.

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.

It is good to be well connected with English language, literature and history, but the knowledge of our culture and roots is equally important.

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

The NRA isn't a boogeyman, it's a grass-roots organization made up of 5 million law-abiding Second Amendment supporters.

I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world.

I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before.

No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their hearts.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

Well, I started out down a dirty road Started out all alone And the sun went down as I crossed the hill And the town lit up, the world got still I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, the good ol' days may not return And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, some say life will beat you down Break your heart, steal your crown So I've started out for God knows where I guess I'll know when I get there I'm learning to fly around the clouds But what goes up must come down

Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time

You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don't even know who The Who is. It's like, where have you been? Justin Timberlake? C'mon. Where are the roots?

Most black families have roots, whether Christian, Muslim or other religions, and that journey is unique for each individual.

James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.

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

Blondes have more fun, don't they? They must. How many brunettes do you see walking down the street with blond roots?

Democrats need an organizer who will energize the grass-roots across this country to build the party from the bottom up.

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

The conspiracy theory of the Jew as the hypnotic conspirator, the duplicitous manipulator, the sinister puppeteer is one with ancient roots and a bloody history.

I was in Venice teaching, so I reread Henry James's "The Wings of the Dove." I love James.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave a rainbow.

Courage lies in being oneself, in showing complete independence, in loving what one loves, in discovering the deep roots of one's feelings.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the road The roots are deep inside us It's the rhythm in our soul.