Quotes About Roots

Identifying the flaw in the US philosophical roots requires that we move beyond the intellectual and emotional climate in which the Constitution was conceived and adopted. The meanings of concepts and words change with use, and even the Supreme Court has admitted that the original perspective of the American social contract has been altered by the passage of time.

Alexander Hamilton, a native West Indian, naturalized New Yorker and extreme nationalist who had no roots in any regional culture.

A legitimate government does not lose face easily, but an insecure government with little in the way of indigenous roots takes its image very seriously.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.

Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

I do not come from a rich family, but I come from a really good family.

My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I've got the blood of a New Zealander, so I always kind of felt like I didn't belong - in a good way.

I come from a good family. I come from a faith-based family.

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

My great grandmother was Chinese .

I think it's probably better to make a region your own, and then maybe you can go somewhere else, but a lot of great writers have stuck to one region.

My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University.

Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.

Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness, tranquillity, and prosperity.

I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.'

Treat the cause not the effect.

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

There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry.

If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.

Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from.