Roots Quotes

You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.

I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.

We're still who we are at the roots. I reckon, hopefully, you let it branch out a little bit and you learn. You live and learn, so that's what we've tried to do.

An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it has evolved over the past century and a half.

But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.

The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.

Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.

Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.

Listen to me, convict. I have not traveled all this way to listen to your war stories. So shut your trap before I shut it for you. Commander Julius Root

I don't really need to appeal to some stockbroker, and I always sort of root for the underdog. I probably consider all that when I'm writing, but it's not in the forefront of my brain.

Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings.

A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.

[Sigmund ] Freud assumes that every dream represents the satisfaction of adesire and in the last analysis, of a sexual desire that has its roots in infancy.

I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule the world. They are in control in so many ways.

With Hitler it was all floating, without roots, intangible and mediumistic.

You just never set roots; you take pleasure in simple conversations, because you know you're not going to have much more than that. It's very isolating, and that can be a good thing.

Courage lies in being oneself, in showing complete independence, in loving what one loves, in discovering the deep roots of one's feelings.

I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.

The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena.

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.

When you focus on the third chakra it has to pull the kundalini from the root center, through the second, up to the third chakra.

The mystical kundalini goes the other direction. It starts at the base of the spine, at the root chakra and goes up.

And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

I started talking about things that everybody could relate to. And that's not to say I deserted my roots, I just found a way to talk about things in a broad way.

I didn't get nervous when I ran, but I get nervous watching other people now. I root for anybody with a USA on their chest.

These are the roots of trees, O monks, these are empty huts. Meditate, monks, do not be negligent, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.

Welcome the back talk, because it's completely natural and normal. It's actually a sign that the new idea you've planted in your mind is taking root.

Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.

Gershwin's tragedy was not that he failed to cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there in his new habitat, was deprived of the chance to plunge his roots firmly into the new soil.

Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is even in the grave, And thou must die.

A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?

I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.

Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.

Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

I used to coach a lot of hockey. I'd love to be a hockey coach, a bit more of a dramatic role and not comedic. I would go back to my hockey roots, that would be fun.

Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.

Nobody can ask us to abjure our fascist roots.

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

More than anything I want to be able to go back to Cuba, to have a house to visit there, to know my roots. Then, at last, I could sing for my people.

Knowledge has the form of a tree, and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines, it represents the roots of the tree.

The truth that I know for sure is that I may have an opinion, but I do not know the truth, and the other thing I know for sure is that certainty is the root of all ignorance and the root of all evil.

I wouldn't want to disappoint my fans by doing anything exciting. You've got to stay true to your roots.

The root of great companies is make meaning vs. make money.

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all stem from the same Abrahamic roots. All three reject terrorism.