Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.
Drawing is the root of everything.
The need of the human mind for contrast has its roots in the mind's age-old habit of looking for differences and likenesses. When the mind can find no differences and no likenesses, as is the case when monotony is present, it restlessly, then resentfully, and at last frantically seeks for contrast that it may again busy itself with observing differences and likenesses.
Sturdy gospel roots that go deep into rich spiritual soil strengthen and steady us in times of trial and difficulty.
You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots.
I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform.
We're [President Barack Obama and I] clear on the fact that we have to stay humble and prayerful. We have to dig down deep to our roots. When things come together, we know some of it is Barack, some of it is us-but a lot of it has nothing to do with either of us.
Coincidence means only a connection that's not seen. Roots meet underground.
Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition. . . Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.
The frying pan you should give to your enemy. Food should not be prepared in fat. Our bodies are adapted to a stone age diet of roots and vegetables.
My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them.
My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.
Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves. . . how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
You can't have the fruits without the roots.
Fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
The common root, of course, comes out of Africa. That's the pulse. The African pulse. It's all the way back from. . . the old slave chants and up through the blues, the jazz, and up through rock. And it's all got the African pulse.
The last time I had this much fun was a root-canal operation.