#roots

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#different #different subjects #fed #implanted #increase

You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time. ↗

— Bob Seger

#better #each #going #hear #jazz

I know my roots and I cannot forget the journey I made. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#forget #i #journey #know #made

But a lot of my training can be done in Aston - a lot of the hard work, so to speak. But a new atmosphere, a new place, and it's good for me because I didn't want to get stuck in one spot, so coming home is good, back and forth, you know, where my roots are. ↗

— Elvis Stojko

#back #because #coming #coming home #done

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#clay #most #poetry #roots #strong

We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#immigrant #land #newcomers #our #part

Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family's life have been enriched by this. I think a writer has to experience new environments. There is that adage: No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer. ↗

— Arthur Hailey

#domicile #experiences #family #living #move

Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things. Their language has been lost. But not the gestures. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#bark #gestures #hear #hearing #listen

You're really earning the support of New Hampshire voters, and you've got to do that one-on-one grassroots campaigning here, even if you have the most money. ↗

— Kelly Ayotte

#earning #even #got #grassroots #hampshire

Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

#been #do you know #hearing #imagining #know