Top 1200 Strong Roots Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

We are going back to our roots by cultivating new unsigned talent who otherwise might go unnoticed.

I like to go out there looking like a strong woman, because I am strong. But I am also a woman who goes through all kinds of problems and highs and lows.

It would seem that I, who never could make much sense of physics when I was at school, have now gained a strong sense of Einsteinian space-time. I am free of the nimbyism of now, and feel a strong kinship with both the dead and the unborn.

The United States wants a strong United Kingdom as a partner. And the United Kingdom is at its best when it's helping to lead a strong Europe.

In my business, you should be very strong in mind. You have to be sure about yourself and about your work and your career, and you have to be strong inside because so many people come around and try to say bad things about you.

Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.

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.

John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sense of values. She encouraged us to pursue things we were interested in and not think about what other people wanted us to do.

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

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 feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.

Whenever I watch the beginning of Jimmy Fallon, I feel like I should sue the Roots for bait and switch.

In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.

I think a way to behave is to think not in terms of representative government, not in terms of voting, not in terms of electoral politics, but thinking in terms of organizing social movements, organizing in the work place, organizing in the neighborhood, organizing collectives that can become strong enough to eventually take over - first to become strong enough to resist what has been done to them by authority, and second, later, to become strong enough to actually take over the institutions.

England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots.

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.

Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us.

If I love Etta James, it's not just the voice, and it's not just the song, but it's the energy that connects me to her, so if she is strong, I can be strong, too, and if she is sad, I know I am not alone, or if she is joyous, I can connect with that joy.

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.

Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.

What I wanted to do in talking about basketball in 'Hoop Roots' was retrieve the game as something to participate in, not to watch.

The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

I'm still very much a West Virginia boy. I haven't forgotten my roots, because that's really who I am.

The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.

So many people in the gay community have always asked me to come out, say it like it is, and help our cause. But for me... I think my biggest statement I could give to the world is to be strong being myself... you have to make something of yourself, and that's what makes us strong.

As to the strong likeness between General Hamilton and Dr. Stevens, Mr. Yard could give no account; altho' it seemed apparent that he thought them near of kin. In cases of this sort, the possibility of kindred blood gives rise to surmises, or strong suspicions, of which no proof is attainable.

Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance.

I'm as strong, strong as I can be, but ooh ooh ooh, baby you leave me weak.

I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.

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.

Where there is no power, there is never any desire to do that thing; and where there is strong desire to do a thing, it is certain proof that the power to do it is strong, and only requires to be developed and applied in the Right Way.

I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I'm a strong person and a strong individual. And that's what I take with me every day.

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.

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.

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.

They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!

The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.

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.

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea.

I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.

We're here to let the Democrats know that the grass roots and the anti-war movement elected them to create change.

I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

The roots of apple were to build computers for people, not for corporations. The world doesn't need another dell or compaq.

My father, who is deeply spiritual and religious, always stressed that my siblings and I remain true to our Indian roots.

I don't think sexual repression leads to violence, but I can see the situation where you're trying very hard to be very religious and to be good but pornography exerts a strong force on you, and one way to get further away from it would be to immerse yourself in a strong religious system.

Even if you want to try out something new, that should not be done without losing your roots.

Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

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.

I think, being emotional is this thing that people think you're not strong. They don't look at you as a strong person, and it's weird 'cuz honestly being emotional has nothing to do with your strength.

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.

Yes, for me audio-visual performance has its roots in my experience working as an improvising musician and composer.

It may be a truism that the country cannot be strong abroad unless it is strong at home, but it's also a fact that the country's economic prosperity depends on its security abroad - not only in the core of the liberal democratic world but often well beyond it, too.

The best thing I can do is stay on the road and build a grass-roots following. I'm constantly about building my brand.

If we are all strong, stable, we can set our sail with any wind in the world that comes along. We make up our own direction. If we are not strong, we are like a leaf in the wind and the world's winds will take us where they wish, not where we wish. So we meditate, every day, regularly, and gain transcendental being in our everyday life and then we are strong. When we are all infused with Being, we need not think which course is right, we just take the one that is automatically. Being is the wind-resister and the sail-setter.

The bureaucracy has grown such powerful roots in Russia, and corruption is so widespread, that people from opposition have no interest in changing anything.