#roots

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots, the other is wings. ↗

— Hodding Carter

#children #give #lasting #other #our

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath. ↗

— Wilt Chamberlain

#everybody #goliath #nobody #pulls #roots

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.' ↗

— Mason Cooley

#ghetto #liberal #roots #stay #version

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#around #being #billion #built #earth

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

In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#back #been #blues #born #bureau

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

To get the adrenaline pumping between events - or to help me switch off, Jay Z, the Roots and Drake are on my playlist. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#between #drake #events #get #help

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