Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.
I believe that Israel and the U.S.-Israel relationship are, and should be, key considerations in shaping U.S. policy in the Middle East. Americans with roots or interests in the region should be involved in advocacy and discussions of public policy concerning the region.
Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.
Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.
The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay very connected to your roots.
I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.
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.
'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'
Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.
A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
Kids under, I'd say, 14 are still maturing; they are still growing. They are still understanding themselves. To hit them with something like 'Roots,' to hit them with this particular period of time, it's important to discuss the matters beyond the program itself.
There is an unspoken feminist layer to Katana. She's an aggressive modern woman with traditional Japanese roots. She was in love with her sword because she believed it contained her husband.
I always think to myself that if I was able to transition from lucha libre style to American style, then I can always go back. You never lose your roots.
Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk!
Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together.
To me, the whole thing with the roots of rap music was when the DJ had to supply all the music for the group with two turntables. And the whole criteria of what that DJ would use had nothing to do with what type of band made a record.
I want to show how strong I am from my roots.
I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.
The first thing I feel like we have the potential to do is to deliver to consumers more roots to their home.
My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people where I'm from.
The 'snakebot', which is a type of mechanized, biologically inspired robot, itself has roots in Japanese laboratories of the 1970s. What the team at Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Mellon is doing today under professor Howie Choset is making the 'snakebots' stronger, smaller, and more maneuverable than ever.
They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history.
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.
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Free soloing is almost as old as climbing itself, with roots in the 19th century. Climbers are continuing to push the boundaries. There are certainly better technical climbers than me. But if I have a particular gift, it's a mental one - the ability to keep it together where others might freak out.
When I get some time off, I like to go back to my roots in the North East. My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.
Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll.
