Roots Quotes
Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.
True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.
Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.
It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.
My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.
The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare, Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste, As if it would each root's lost strength repair.
Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.
I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.
I don't have a gardener because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.
I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.
Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have taught, I also teach; verily, I will make it the root of my teaching.
It's such a phenomenon for a hip-hop artist to fully embrace his Christian roots and his faith. And that becomes something that people almost need you to justify.
A new model is starting to take root and grow, one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more power to guide these choices. I call this emerging model The Mesh.
It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.
If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do.
A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.
Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.
Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea
Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.
Post World War II America draws a great deal of interest, but the students also seem to know quite a bit about American exceptionalism and its historical roots.
A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.
At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.
Nobody roots for people who presume success. You have to earn success, and success is earned by making a movie that audiences like and want to see more of.
I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.
Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work.
In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.
If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.
People like to see human error when it’s honest. When people see you swing and miss, they start to root for you.
My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.
The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.
By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.
Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.
If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!
Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
I supported this bill. I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived here even though sometime back they may have entered illegally.
