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“I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level and have run campaigns or have been deeply involved in grass roots political campaigns and who have actual hands-on experience.”

Thinking Has Beens Said States Hands Running Political Levels Involved Roots Campaigns Significant Grass Political Campaign Hands On Experience Significant Experiences

Author:Roy Romer

“Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. Throw it in the garbage and it springs up clean. Try to root it out and it only flourishes. Love is a weed, a dandelion that you poison from your heart. The taproots wait. The seeds blow off, ticklish, into a part of the yard you didn't spray. And one day, though you worked, though you prodded out each spiky leaf, you lift your eyes and dozens of fat golden faces bob in the grass.”

“What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the better. We hope that by supporting the good work that is being done, especially at the grass roots, we can help to alleviate the suffering of human beings. That is our core mission - to draw attention to the impact that conflict, injustice and poverty have on ordinary people.”

“The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen far more efficiently than trees. The turnover is faster. Grass reaches out and turns solar energy into carbon. Tillage hyper-aerates the soil, burning out carbon. But because a plant creates bilateral symmetry at the soil horizon, it sloughs off root mass when the top gets chopped off.”

“If the Lord tarries, there may yet be a grass-roots awakening that will overflow all sectarian barriers. There are a host of good people... who long for a visitation from heaven in old-time power. The kindling wood is scattered all round in all the churches. May God help us to rake off the ashes, uncover the live coals and may He blow upon us with the breath of His Spirit!”

“As things stand now the feudal lords are content to look on while the shogunate carries on in a highhanded manner. Neither the lords nor the shogun can be depended upon, and so our only hope lies in grass-roots heroes.”

Looks Lying Lord Hero Roots Grass Carrie Shoguns

Author:Yoshida Shoin

“It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.”

Mean Country Seems Lying Roots Folks Selfish Traditional Grass Meat Hopeless Expenses Doomed

Author:Yoshida Shoin

“When I consider the state of things in our fief, I find that those who hold positions and receive official stipends are incapable of the utmost in loyalty and patriotic service. Loyalty of the usual sort-perhaps, but if it is true loyalty and service you seek, then you must abandon this fief and plan a grass-roots uprising.”

Ifs States Plans Position Roots Loyalty Grass Officials Abandon Patriotic Usual Incapable Uprising

Author:Yoshida Shoin

“most of us persist in regarding leadership as synonymous with - indeed solely derived from - high position. Perhaps the notion of grass-roots leadership strikes us as too much of an oxymoron; confronted with apparent paradox, our imaginations fail. ... I believe that in the future, our ideas about the nature of leadership will undergo a radical transformation. As the instrumental use of knowledge continues to redefine the nature and purpose of organizations, we will begin to look at those on the front lines for leadership.”

“Ive been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. Im 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues.”

Years Persons War Stories Issues Television Majors News Advantage Roots Radio Locals Grass Recessions Television News

Author:George Noory

“Organizational Development: The New Christian Right of the 1980s was dominated by paper organizations that were essentially the mailing lists of a handful of politicized ministers. Such organizations were better at issuing press releases than doing the hard work of political mobilization and advocacy. By contrast, the movement of the 1990s has generated a plethora of grass-roots organizations that allocate meaningful responsibilities to individual members. The goal is to create an army of grassroots activists who know how to stimulate political change.”

“He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.”

Country Government America Roots Clubs Grass Country Clubs

Author:Alice Roosevelt Longworth

“Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.”

Made Century Roots Grass Twentieth Century Nineteenth Century Populism Progressivism

Author:Jill Lepore

“I've always tried to keep in mind that I'm in grass-roots country and I'm grass-roots-born and -reared. I don't use the so-called 'sophisticated approach' to broadcasting that is used in other parts of the country.”

Mind Country Use Used Born Approach Roots Grass Sophisticated Broadcasting

Author:Jack Brickhouse

“I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.”

Issues Involved Roots Grass

Author:J.B. Pritzker

“The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!”

Earth Waiting Water Rain Roots Environmental Grass Strain

Book:Collected Poems, 1917-1982

Source: Collected Poems, 1917-1982

“I am a strong believer in grass roots communities, but I also believe government resources, when available, should be equally available to all people.”

People Should Believe Government Strong Community Resources Roots Available Believer Grass

Author:Liane Holliday Willey

“Honestly I think that the internet is one of the most amazing promotional tools out there. And I think it promotes music getting heard in a grass roots way, where people aren't being force fed to listen to something.”

People Thinking Way Force Heard Internet Tools Roots Honestly Grass Feds Most Amazing

Author:Tristan Prettyman

“I decided to become a community organizer ... Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.”

Community Powerful Roots Decided Grass Organizer

Book:Dreams From My Father

Source: Dreams From My Father

“There is something democratic about grass-roots, widespread money support. There is something anti-democratic about one person propping up a candidate who can't make it.”

Persons Support Roots Democratic Grass Candidates

Author:Ari Fleischer

“It is important to us to understand and discuss a "vision" with both leagues and then sponsor the league that best matches our views and direction on growing the sport. To do that, there must be a tie back to our grass roots efforts. In short, our marketing plan for new players has to ultimately point to a league and its players.”

Important Sports Views Effort Vision Growing Player Plans Roots Marketing Grass League Ties Sponsors Marketing Plans

Author:John Robinson

“People have the most control over their affairs at the grass-roots level. Anything that can be fairly and efficiently handled at a grass-roots level should be thus handled, and only delegated to a higher authority when necessary.”

People Should Levels Higher Authority Roots Affair Grass

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“I call myself a radical conservative. What's that? Well, let's analyze it. Go to the dictionary. Radical: One who gets to the roots of things. And I'm a conservative because I want to conserve the green of the grass, the potability of drinking water, the first amendment of the Constitution and whatever sanity we have left.”

Want Firsts Wells Left Water Roots Constitution Green Drinking Conservative Radical Grass Sanity Amendments Dictionary First Amendment Drinking Water

Author:Studs Terkel

“We're here to let the Democrats know that the grass roots and the anti-war movement elected them to create change.”

Knows War Movement Roots Democrat Grass Anti War Anti War Movement

Author:Cindy Sheehan

“Millennials aspire to marry the blue skies thinking of the Boomers with the grass-roots mindset of GenX.”

Thinking Sky Roots Blue Mindset Grass Aspire Blue Sky Millennials Boomers

Author:Mal Fletcher

“Detroit was an exaggeration of what was going on across the country. You could see the divisions, even within the Civil Rights Movement of that period. At the same time that Martin Luther King was talking about his dream, Malcolm X gave his most famous address in Detroit during that same period, "The Message To The Grass Roots," dismissing the notion of integration.”

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Author:David Maraniss

“To earn the support of grass-roots activists, you have to spend real time, looking them in the eyes, answering their questions. Part of it is also you have to have a message that inspires people.”

People Real Eye Support Inspire Messages Roots Grass Activist

Author:Ted Cruz

“The heart of a grass-roots campaign is the ownership.”

Heart Roots Campaigns Grass Ownership

Author:Ted Cruz

“You cannot build a grass-roots campaign unless you are connecting with people.”

People Roots Campaigns Grass Connecting

Author:Ted Cruz

“I believe in the American people. It's - I believe in trusting them, I believe in empowering them, and I think, at the end of the day, the only force strong enough to change the course we're on is the grass roots across the country.”

People Thinking Believe Ends Country Enough Courses Strong Force I Believe Roots I Believe In Grass Empowering The End Of The Day Strong Enough

Author:Ted Cruz

“Two-thirds of Americans think our kids will have a worse life than we did. That is a powerful indication we are on the wrong path. I think we can change that, but I'll tell you, that's what I'm going to fight to do, and the reason so many grass-roots activists poured so much into it is they believed in our country. They believed in liberty.”

Thinking Two Country Reason Kids Fighting Powerful Liberty Path Roots Thirds Our Country Grass Activist Indication Wrong Path

Author:Ted Cruz

“In a sense the Pirate Party is very similar to what happened for the Bernie Sanders campaign, where people felt inspired and they felt like they were having an impact, a big grass-roots-inspired movement, in particular with young people.”

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Author:Birgitta Jonsdottir

“People in the UK will say that the design community in the US is much more coherent than other countries. It has no government support at all, so it's really like a grass roots thing.”

People Country Government Community Support Design Roots Grass Other Countries

Author:Michael Bierut

“I'm talking of the idea, basically very widespread in America, that the less government the better, which is obviously being used to the advantage of the big corporations, but none-the-less has very radical implications. The idea of a people that exercises a great deal of federalist or confederalist control, the ideal of a grass-roots type of democracy, the idea of the freedom of the individual which is not to get lost in the mazes of anarcho-egotism à la Stirner, or for that matter right-wing libertarianism.”

“People are hungry, and they're hurting and they're very, very worried about their children. Will their kids ever pay off their student debt? Will their kids ever get a decent-paying job? I think Democrats have got to be running a grass-roots campaign - mobilizing people and being prepared to take on the 1 percent with an agenda that speaks to the needs of ordinary workers.”

People Thinking Needs Children Running Kids Jobs Speak Hurt Pay Students Ordinary Percent Roots Prepared Democrat Workers Debt Campaigns Hungry Worried Grass Decent Agendas

Author:Bernie Sanders

“The White House is dismissing these town hall fireworks as AstroTurf movements which means it`s the opposite of a true grass roots movement.”

Mean House White Movement Roots Opposites Towns Grass Halls White House Fireworks

Author:Chuck Todd

“I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.”

Sports Sides Roots Grass Coaching Tennis Squash

Author:Billie Jean King

“When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.”

Mean Whole Kids America Levels Band Roots Wave Grass Garage Resurgence

Author:Lester Bangs

“When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.”

Christian Support Roots Available Grass Coalitions

Author:Pat Robertson

“The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.”

Rocks Ethics Roots Grass Contempt Punk Jury Punk Rock

Author:Jello Biafra

“Politicians all over the world cater to domestic vote banks. They will spend only on what their constituents want. So unless there is a grass root green movement in a nation the politicians will not be willing to spend money on curbing emissions. More awareness is needed amongst the people to effect the real change in how governments spend.”

People World Want Real Government Nations Effects Awareness Movement Willing Needed Politician Roots Vote Green Grass Emissions Constituents Real Change Green Movement

Author:Wilbur Smith

“I have never really thought of him as a person, either.... A guy whose strings were broken, who didn’t feel the root of his leaves of grass connected to the field, a guy who was cracked. Like me.”

Feels Persons Guy Fields Broken Roots Connected Like Me Grass Strings Cracked Leaves Of Grass

Author:John Green

“We can hear others, and we can travel with them without moving, and we can imagine them, and we are all connected one to the other by a crazy root system, like so many leaves of grass. But the game makes me wonder wheter we can really ever fully become another.”

Moving Games Wonder Imagine Crazy Roots Connected Grass Leaves Of Grass

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.”

Way Looks Mean Long Stills Matter Suffering Break Alive Thousand Roots Towns Metaphor Careful Ships Grass Strings Be Careful You Choose Shortage

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.'”

Ifs Feels I Can Ability Imagine Roots Connected Grass Leafs Leaves Of Grass Let Her Go

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“The trees bathed their great heads in the waves of the morning, while their roots were planted deep in gloom; save where on the borders of the sunshine broke against their stems, or swept in long streams through their avenues, washing with brighter hue all the leaves over which it flowed; revealing the rich brown of the dacayed leaves and fallen pine-cones, and the delicate greens of the long grasses and tiny forests of moss that covered the channel over which it passed in the motionless rivers of light.”

Source: The Princess Treasury

“Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.”

Long Stills Alive Roots Towns Grass Shortage

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the spring died. The patch of grass in front of the house abandoned its ambitions to become a lawn and turned into the dirty yellow of poor straw. The earth shrank, revealing its knuckles and bones, rocks and roots that had been invisible before.”

Earth House Water Poor Sun Saws Rocks Fronts Ambition Spring Rain Rivers Roots Died Bones Invisible Dirty Grass Yellow Abandoned Revealing Patches Lawns Straws Knuckles Lavender

Book:Toujours Provence

Source: Toujours Provence

“Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.”

People Way Kind Art Two War Today Grows Dangerous Grew Roots Customers All Kinds Grass Venture Joints Art Of War Alliances Two Ways Acquisition Partnering Joint Ventures

Author:Peter Drucker

“My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.”

Ifs Way Giving Political Winning Process Simple Advice Battle Roots Bigger Bottom Grass You Can Win

Author:David Miliband

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