I’ve had some Democrat African-American leaders tell me they’re really not all that comfortable with Obama as the lead at the MLK festivities ’cause he’s not down for the struggle. He does not have that in his roots. – Rush Limbaugh
Unfortunately, I don’t look as Latin as I am. I get called a white guy a lot, but I am very proud of my heritage. I try my hardest to bring honor to my Mexican roots. Latin people are very passionate and loyal, and I will always remember who I am and where I come from. – Ryan Guzman
I want the ‘Roots’ biopic to be animated – I see Charles Schulz drawing us. I think it would be more hilarious with the voices of children. – Questlove
I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish sporting roots… I am also a proud Ulsterman who grew up in Northern Ireland. That is my background and always will be. – Rory McIlroy
Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all. – Peter Davison
Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions. – Orson Welles
I do have very solid reggae roots based on the fact that I’m Jamaican, and so that is a part of myself; even if I never do all reggae, it has to come out in some way because that’s who I am. – Tessanne Chin
As far as I’m concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue. – Zadie Smith
It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one’s own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad. – Umberto Eco
When I’m not on T.V. or working on a movie, I’m on the road doing stand-up. That’s my roots. – Wanda Sykes
I’m black and Cuban, Australian and Irish, and like most people in America, I’m someone whose roots come from somewhere else. I’m a mixed race, first-generation American. – Soledad O’Brien
Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England – where liberal value have deep historic roots. – Vladimir Putin
I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery. – V. S. Naipaul
But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain. – Theodor Herzl
The one thing that’s going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true. – Sally Hawkins
Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left. – Todd Rundgren
I can’t live without mousse. When my hair is damp I put it at the roots. When I blow dry my hair it makes it so much bouncier. It gives you shampoo commercial hair and makes your blowout so much better. – Shay Mitchell
They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep – they will shoot up again! – Toussaint Louverture
Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe. – Viktor Orban
There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots. – Stephen Carter
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. – Victor Hugo
Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos. – William Irwin Thompson