#roots

I originally had an idea about a family of people who were homeless, just traveling around without any solid roots or any home, who made their way around working wherever they could. I started it with them. The idea of Joe as a protagonist came along a little later. ↗

— Larry Brown

#along #any #around #came #could

Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#bear #beast #begets #come #constitutes

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

#am #american #britain #choice #english

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders. ↗

— Larry Elder

#colonel #control #demands #further #gun

This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#branches #confining #done #hundred #may

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots. ↗

— Aretha Franklin

#church #definitely #know #me #natural

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #alex #back #case #envy

My cultural roots are something illusive. ↗

— Ang Lee

#roots #something

My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the church, as far as the sonic choices, in the way that I sing and write songs. I have always had that as part of my background and part of my influence when I am making music. ↗

— John Legend

#always #am #as far as #background #choices

The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#getting #grassroots #need #out #registration