Roots Quotes

The average man can't prove most of the things that he chooses to speak of, and still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever.

Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves.

The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'

Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.

If you don't root for the Dodgers, you might not get into heaven.

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect

Money the root of evil guess I'm the devil then. God bless my soul to rest.

Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.

Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace.

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

The root of prayer is interior silence.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

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.

I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.

I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.

Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.

Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.

There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?

There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.

I went to high school in Texas for one year, my senior year. My parents wanted me to get out of Stockholm because I was running with the wrong crew. They wanted me to get back to my roots.

Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

We get up in the morning feeling tired. Sometimes we feel good, sometimes bad, but we go through it with feeling. That's the root to the truth, that's where everything starts

Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.

We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.

A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.

If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.

Everyone knows what their roots are, but you've got to explore everywhere. You've got to explore the sky too.

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.

The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God

Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.

The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their ideas and are willing to hear them.

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.

We all come from the same root, but the leaves are all different.

The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises.