- Grass Roots
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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
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through Rip Van Winkle country, routed through boulder fields, across angular juttings of granite and along a path with an unrelenting barrage of roots, rocks and mud, all of it hidden under slick leaves and dangling nettles.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they are determined for us.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I moved to Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, all through the South. But my family's roots were from central Florida, like Daytona Beach area, so we ended up moving there.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents have always been very concerned of making sure we know who we are and where we come from. I have to give them credit for that. Knowing your roots is quite important.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Almighty has plans for us to make a place so we can go on and make a difference. It all has to do with my faith; I am deeply religious. It goes back to my roots, to my mom and my dad.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
People wonder why I love Africa so much. I say this is where I was born and raised. My roots are in Africa; that's were I developed.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.
- Nervous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live somewhere else. You see the shape of your life at a distance.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really got back to my New Orleans roots - my grandfather played with Fats Domino. We had to leave after Katrina, but I feel like, spiritually, I'm back there.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots.
- Big Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got deep roots in Kalamazoo, with a grandfather, Harold Allen, who was a big part of Upjohn Co. for many years as the corporate secretary and friends with W. E. Upjohn.
- Nov 07, 2020
'Roots' did show that the audience would be receptive to black talent and a black story.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
What prevailed was that it was a family story, so it didn't matter what the color. It was also the perfect subject matter for a miniseries: A best-selling book, a generational story, a social problem - they all made 'Roots' what a miniseries should be.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
We couldn't predict what would happen with 'Roots.' You knew there were powerful moments that were going to affect people. We were making the film while the book was being completed. We were fortunate because the hardcover book was out and on the best-seller list. The heat was still on.
- Black History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people perceive 'Roots' to be a black history show, nobody is going to watch it.
- Nov 07, 2020