Roots Quotes

I can't be the Mayor of L.A. I hate the Dodgers. I'm a Yankee fan. Yankee fans can't ever root for the Dodgers.

I planted a seed of hatred in my heart. I swore it would grow to be a massive tree whose roots would strangle them all.

I am proud of my black roots and of the black blood that runs in my veins.

Charity is the root of all good works.

Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.

I want to be reborn as a tree; that way I can plant my roots down, never move and can never be separated from the ones I love.

exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder...We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it.

All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.

Salvation is the root-the resurrection is the fruit.

God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.

I like to see people reaching back for the roots and for the reason why. Not intellectually, but just for the gut feeling of what it's all about.

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.

Fear is the root of all courage.

Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.

The Labor roots are very strong.Paul Keating, made a comment several years ago about looking at that dragging yourself out of poverty, dragging yourself out of that situation.

I always root for the defense.

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'

What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.

You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.

... it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier.

So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self.

Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.

People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs.

The word 'religion' takes on a sinister cast when one examines its root, religare, meaning 'to bind,' which in turn means 'to hold, to make prisoner, to restrain.

An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est.

There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.

You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the road The roots are deep inside us It's the rhythm in our soul.

The season of love is that of battle. The roots of these fights run deep.

Civilization has its roots in the soil.

The real question is, do you root for the fox in that song? Or are you horrified that the goose and the duck are being dragged off to their death, which is described in detail?

Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.

Having lost its value, money may no longer be the root of all evil; credit having taken its place.

In fact, if you look at the root word of phonograph it just means phonetics of graphology, phono-graph, writing with sound, so graphology. You know graffiti, same root word.

I stay close to my roots and my family. I never want to forget any part of it. I'm still just a hillbilly at heart, thus a Backwoods Barbie.

The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.

Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.

Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.

Darkness, air, water, and sky will come together... and shake the forest to its roots.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.

A spark in the sun, this tiny flower has roots deep in the cool earth.

Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools.

In the final analysis, each of us is responsible for what we are. We cannot blame it on our mothers, who, thanks to Freud, have replaced money as the root of all evil.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

A writer is nothing but a gray dirt-covered root. The works he sends up into the sunlight are his fruits, and only those are worthy of attention.

You have to know what's happening in the locker rooms, you have to know what's happening at the grass-roots level. That's the best way to work.