Roots Quotes

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

I'm not a fighter, but in my mind I'm fighting every day. 'What's new? What am I doing?' I'm fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren't samurai, but my soul is.

Communism which feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls shall not take root in the United States.

Although I have started my solo activities but this doesnt mean I'll give up my roots, SS501 is my root .

Everything, every part that you approach has to be somehow rooted in yourself. You have to somehow root everything so that it's not just words coming out of you.

My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood.

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

You were the leaves, basking in the sunlight. I was the root, growing in the darkness ~Danzo

The Christian marginality of women has its roots in the patriarchal beginnings of the church and in the androcentrism of Christian revelation.

To me it's a question of being able to look backward and give the present a root... To give meaning to where we are today, we need to look at where we have come from.

I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding - no frills, down to the bone and intense.

What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.

Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.

Whatis the root of all these words? One thing: Love. But a love so deep and sweet it needed to express itself with scents, sounds, colors that never before existed.

When we as a nation, strive in vain to preserve the beauty of our national life, forgetting our biblical roots, we are doomed.

Negative feelings are like weeds. If you don't fully extract them (i.e. pull out the roots), they will come back.

Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.

Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

Our root fantasy is that "I" am real and that it's possible for "me" to be happy.

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty - Which draws us together.

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%

Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It's not racism and "this-ism" and "that-ism"; it's our thirst and hunger for money. And that's where all the bodies are buried.

Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. Return to the root and you will find Meaning.

I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

You only see the top of a lily pad, but if you pull the lily pad out of the water, it has roots and tangled weeds and all the stuff that comes with it.

. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.

We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

The root of oppression is the loss of memory.

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow.

I want to show how strong I am from my roots.

The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.

Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

Kuwait is an origin, and her regulations are branches, so be devoted to the origin, the roots will be insured.

I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.

Like a tree that grows stronger with more branches and roots, you need to find more and more ways to be inspired.

He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.

The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God.

Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.

No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another.

It is because my roots are so strong that I can fly.

Assurance is the fruit that grows out of the root of faith.

I know I'm not going to understand women. I'll never understand how you can take boiling hot wax, pour it onto your upper thigh, rip the hair out by the root, and still be afraid of a spider.

Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.

It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.