Roots Quotes

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.

...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.

Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.

Envy is the root of the egalitarian ethos.

The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past.

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

"The root of joy is gratefulness."

Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us.

Our love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that's why the clay and the flower, the mud and the roots know your name.

I don't trust politicians. I think that by the time they've made it, with the concessions they've had to make in that position, I don't believe they still have the beliefs they had at the root.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.

Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.

Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil.

The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.

A whole new series of technologies like biotechnology, virtual reality, and super-computerization are appearing now that are leading us away from our nature-based roots.

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

You can't have the fruits without the roots.

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade majesty John Stuart Mill' and revered by others.

If there is no fruit in sanctification, there is no root in regeneration.

It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

Honest to God, so International Women's Day, just like May Day and just like Earth Day, all have roots to Marxism and the Bolsheviks and the Soviets.

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

A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.

That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.

I give everybody the benefit of the doubt. Anything you get into, you should research it and figure its roots and try to really be a real strong part of it.

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

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

The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart.

The root of war is fear.

Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture.

I am in favor of [actions] that have authenticity, roots, originality, verve, balance, taste, communicativeness, challenge, relevance to their time-in short, things that make sense.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots.

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.

The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep roots in the past and is almost universal.

Socialism never took root in America.

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

Drawing is the root of everything.

A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.

I'm staunch. If you are lucky enough to be able to play for your country, it seems to make you even prouder of your roots and origins, and to me that's Wellington.

This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming.

There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.

When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness