Roots Quotes

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

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

Drawing is the root of everything.

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

Socialism never took root in America.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The root of war is fear.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

You can't have the fruits without the roots.

When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them through the tough times.

Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.

Unless you heal the root of a problem, the pain will not go away. You can hide from it, but the problem stays until you dig deep.

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.

The roots of my music start from the ghetto.

As far as Beau is concerned, we're on the same team, we root for each other. If my parts are slightly more attractive, or are perceived that way by others, he's very content.

The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.

Though leaves are many, the root is one.

Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you

Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.

My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.

My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.

The roots of apple were to build computers for people, not for corporations. The world doesn't need another dell or compaq.

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.

Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root.

Discipline comes from the same root word as disciple, and implies patience and teaching on our part. It should not be done in anger.

Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

Never have the world's moneys been so long cut off from their metallic roots.

Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where.

A lesser moustache, under the impact of that quick, agonised expulsion of breath, would have worked loose at the roots.

I think it is important to maintain your personality, your roots, very important.

The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation.

For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force.