#roots

But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well. ↗

— Julian Bond

#branches #doing #even #finances #grassroots

I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#also #called #calling #central #central park

I came out of independent film, that's my roots. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#film #i #i came #independent #independent film

I understand people want to hold on to their roots. ↗

— Mariah Carey

#i #people #roots #their #understand

I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots. ↗

— Craig Charles

#fame #got #haven #i #roots

It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#back #before #come #ever #going

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#deep #good #ground #grow #hope

The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#activists #barack #barack obama #because #country

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#because #chaos #dangerous #hysterical #idealism

The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all. ↗

— Peter Davison

#getting #head #makes #more #people