#roots

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#chicago #city #day #down #first

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

Focus on faith and grow your roots strong and deep so no one can make you believe in something that is not good for your soul. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#focus #growth-life #inspiration #lessons #life

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

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

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

— James Norman Hall

#middle #roots #still #west

My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players. ↗

— Chico Hamilton

#basically #come #exciting #fellows #jazz

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#deeper #ecology #economics #fundamental #held

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#another #caresses #die #expressions #leaves