Jim Root Quotes

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.

We never leave our roots. We just grow new branches.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.

I'm sticking true to my roots.

This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation . . . but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family? And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.

To deny this is to deny our own heritage, our own spirit, and our own souls.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

Times change and we should change and grow, and yet be proud of our legacy.

Things that came before, people and things and experiences - that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

You can't run from your roots of who you are.

You can't forget your roots.

I'll never forget where I came from, and I'll never forget who I am.

Authenticity is the most important thing. You have to know where it all comes from, study who pioneered it.

It's good to know where you've come from.

We know where we're going cause we know where we're from.

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from.

The passport changes but the blood doesn't

Philly is a place where people love change as long as things stay the same for them.

My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.

I think the sophomore curse happens when you change every bit of yourself. Though my hair is blonde now, sonically it's still the same girl; conceptually it's still the same girl.

Guess will always be loyal and true to its roots.