#roots

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future. ↗

— Dick Morris

#future #grassroots #politics #spontaneous

Pretty much every weekend, my wife and I have the shall-we-live-in-the-country conversation. I suppose it's something to do with getting older and feeling I want to shed some of the things I've been doing for the last 20 years and go back to my roots. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#been #conversation #doing #every #feeling

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#conflicts #create #economic #harmonious #lasting

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

#became #discovery #i #interested #islamic

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk. ↗

— Will Oldham

#emphasis #grew #i #know #listening

I want to show how strong I am from my roots. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#how #i #i am #roots #show

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#certainly #derived #down #i #individual

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention. ↗

— Alan Parsons

#convention #did #few #folk #gigs

Storms make trees take deeper roots. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#make #roots #storms #take #trees

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#comes #continuous #derived #ground #leaves