I’m certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it’s a fantastic opportunity for anybody – regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you’re from and to know what your roots are. – Danny Pino
‘Roots’ did show that the audience would be receptive to black talent and a black story. – David L. Wolper
My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that’s where I started, that’s where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic. – Pauly Shore
Sturdy gospel roots that go deep into rich spiritual soil strengthen and steady us in times of trial and difficulty. – David A. Bednar
To my astonishment, everything that I had assumed was now questioned by the findings. What started off as a search for identity that appeared to be purely Scottish in origin ended up as a discovery of my migrant roots – indeed an understanding that almost all of our families, at some stage, have been migrants – and my European roots. – Gordon Brown
Policymakers can draw much from ‘The Need for Roots’: such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory and publicly funded, and include technical as well as elementary education. – Pankaj Mishra
I was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, and my neighbor was Michael Novak, a theologian and philosopher who has written about issues like the morality of capitalism and the Christian roots of free markets. It’s possible to be fascinated intellectually with the Christian heritage without being devout. – Dinesh D’Souza
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. – Dinaw Mengestu
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. – Diane Paulus
Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots. – David Novak
I don’t ever worry about whether I’m being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do. – Emmylou Harris
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. – Dikembe Mutombo
My hair is an untidy bob. I am very dark, but I embellish the roots because I am white in one clump. – Erin O’Connor
The reason why Botswana has done very well is because it’s the only black African country which went back to its roots and built upon its own indigenous institutions. – George Ayittey
All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater. – Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with deep roots and old loyalties, skeptical of authority, they are proud and inflexibly territorial. – Paul Theroux
The iPhone will forever be associated with the inventive genius of Steve Jobs and Silicon Valley. But the roots of innovation can be traced back – from one genius to another, at least – back to the genius who put the phone in iPhone: Alexander Graham Bell. – Marvin Ammori
Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework. – Margaret Atwood
It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms. – John Millington Synge
I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. – it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact. – Jennifer Ehle
There’s too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk! – Lady Gregory