Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

- Alvar Aalto

What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.

- Alex Karpovsky

I'm more rooted in new plays and new writing.

- Brendan Coyle

There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.

- Fred Ward

Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.

- G. Willow Wilson

The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.

- Iain Duncan Smith

I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.

- Joanna Newsom

I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.

- Mika

People have a fundamental right to organize. It's rooted very much in the Constitution and people's right to free association.

- Martin Heinrich

Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.

- Pankaj Mishra

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

- Ralph Fiennes

Everyone is so estranged; no one is rooted. That's what I like to write about more than anything else. Everything being so mixed up. Racially mixed up, people moving from place to place, everything shifting.

- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

- Simone Weil

Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.

- Vijay Mallya