Over the course of my life, I have made many transitions – most of them taking me further away from my Somali roots and steadily toward the enlightened mentality of Western democracy. – Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Pretty much every weekend, my wife and I have the shall-we-live-in-the-country conversation. I suppose it’s something to do with getting older and feeling I want to shed some of the things I’ve been doing for the last 20 years and go back to my roots. – Andrew Motion
And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses – and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story. – Adriana Trigiani
We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never been a sectional party promoting self-interest, but instead a force for engaging self-reliance and self-determination. – David Blunkett
I’ve said in the primary race repeatedly that a Labour Party that I lead would be a true red Labour Party, be very clear about its social democratic roots and its social democratic agenda. – David Cunliffe
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. – Felix Adler
A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following. – Duncan Sheik
In taking Dell private, we plan to go back to our roots, focusing on the entrepreneurial spirit that made Dell one of the fastest-growing and most successful companies in history. – Michael Dell
To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier. – Geezer Butler
I certainly feel I’m carrying the flag for Britain. I feel an honour in that but, at the same time, knowing my roots are in Africa, I’d like that to help motivate people from there. Even coming from a third world country, it is possible to get to the top of wherever they want to be. – Chris Froome
I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact – those are my roots, professionally. – Chris Noth
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless. – Eugene Ionesco
I’m really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I’m really excited to be playing her, and overall, I’m really excited to be getting back to my acting roots. – Maria Menounos
I’m trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you’re constantly chasing one job after another, and you look back and you’ve had all these very extraordinary experiences with extraordinary people, but there’s not a line of continuity to it. – Eddie Redmayne
I’ll never forget where I’m from, never forget my roots. It doesn’t matter where I live. I’m English, simple as that. – David Beckham
My roots and Victor’s are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they’re tremendously exciting players. – Chico Hamilton
In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other. – Charles Lyell
Palestinian violence is not a response to the capture of the West Bank and Gaza. Palestinian nationalism’s roots are not so shallow. – Ehud Olmert
Letting the tundra melt is the equivalent to burning all of the forests in all of the world and their roots two and a half times over. – George M. Church
I left Britain in the mid-1990s when TV was going down the cundy – another good Dundee word – because I wanted a film career. But as I get older, I find myself being drawn back to my roots, and I’m loving it. – Charlie Cox
Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs. – Douglas Coupland
I went to L.A., and I was on two different studio movies at Fox and Sony, but they were never made in the end. When the second one wasn’t happening, I ended up doing an episode of ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ for the BBC, and went on a roots trip from England to Kenya, India, and pre-partition India in Pakistan, where my family originally came from. – Gurinder Chadha