#root

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#bloom #bold #does #down #flower

I think if progressives stay at this, continue at the grassroots level to make the case that all Americans should have choice, all Americans ought to be able to hold insurance companies accountable, I think we will have 60 votes in the United States Senate for a strong bill. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#accountable #all americans #bill #case #choice

When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.' ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#brown #cartoon #charlie #charlie brown #comedy

I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#comedy #could #entertaining #entertainment #feeling

My favourite poem is called 'Roots and Wings' - it's a very moving poem about how if you've got real roots you can fly. ↗

— David Miliband

#called #favourite #fly #got #how

There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs. ↗

— Asa Gray

#basis #beliefs #class #facts #held

I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule the world. They are in control in so many ways. ↗

— Erin Gray

#been #control #geeks #grass #grass roots

When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them through the tough times. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

#desolate #down #faith #forefathers #had

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#against #because #books #cavalry #fair

All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West. ↗

— James Norman Hall

#middle #roots #still #west