#root

I sort of came out at the dawn of the Internet in the mid-90s and I think it helped break my career. I think I was one of the first artists to really benefit from the grassroots swell that can happen online. I don't know if I would have broken out without it. ↗

— Jewel

#benefit #break #broken #came #career

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

— David Herbert Lawrence

#fairest #flower #manure #nature #roots

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#ancestry #back #enough #far #go

I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times. ↗

— John Amos

#begged #boy #come #could #good

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#i #i write #mind #out #plays

Two great things you can give your children: one is roots, the other is wings. ↗

— Hodding Carter

#give #great #great things #other #roots

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. ↗

— James Freeman Clarke

#brave #conscience #courage #him #his

A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots. ↗

— Walter Salles

#filmmaker #his #never #roots

The beet must be uprooted. ↗

— Roland Freisler

#uprooted

Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us. ↗

— Harpo Marx

#any #child #got #had #i