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- Nov 07, 2020
Roots Quotes
Where people come from, and what pulls them back.
These quotes describe roots as both a personal foundation - stand-up comedy as one performer's origin story - and a cultural tie worth revisiting, like returning to a hometown left behind to reconnect with its people. See Family quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
- Excellence
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- Nov 07, 2020
As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of our folk arts. We can do this if we are true to our roots and strive for excellence.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
- Grass Roots
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule the world. They are in control in so many ways.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's just an honor to compete in New York, New Jersey, the tri-state area, where we're from. I have so much roots there, so much family.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New Englanders, and so, in my writing, I've been drawn back there to the landscape and the light and the type of personality that's revealed.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Grass
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- Nov 07, 2020