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I changed my name when we became aware of the African revolution and the whole question of our African roots.
Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.
It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.
We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture.
marriages do not take root in the presence of witnesses but only in the consciousness of the persons involved.
They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!
My roots have never left me... because the very first memory I have is my mom singing and me singing with her.
Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.
I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact - those are my roots, professionally.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.
I try to stay very, very true to my roots and my lifestyle and I wanted to be able to share that with my fans.
The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.
He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
Kuwait is an origin, and her regulations are branches, so be devoted to the origin, the roots will be insured.
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.
A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside.
The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.
People in general want to build somebody up and then try to knock them down. They always root for the underdog.
Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.
I can't be the Mayor of L.A. I hate the Dodgers. I'm a Yankee fan. Yankee fans can't ever root for the Dodgers.
The roots of the Divine are entrenched in this body. If you nurture the roots, how can you avoid the flowering?
Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now that’s a blessing.
Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.
Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
Every time someone asks me where I'm from, I'm not sure how to answer that question... so I say I have no roots.
If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.
Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance.
People like to see human error when it’s honest. When people see you swing and miss, they start to root for you.
All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.
One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.
Like a tree that grows stronger with more branches and roots, you need to find more and more ways to be inspired.
By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin
Negative feelings are like weeds. If you don't fully extract them (i.e. pull out the roots), they will come back.
I feel sorry for anyone that I am obsessed with. I am worse than gum in your hair, very, very close to the roots.
We're here to let the Democrats know that the grass roots and the anti-war movement elected them to create change.
Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.
I get very sentimental, I get very nostalgic, and when I live in a place, I instantly put down way too many roots.
I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.
I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz, but the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC.
Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.
He [Bill Clinton] likes to hearken back to his kind of Irish roots, so I think he'd love to be called First Laddy.
Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.
Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.
The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem.
I always shout out my dad. My artistic roots come from him. He had his own T-shirt company and taught me the trade.
Profound music leads us beyond language...to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.