Roots Quotes

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.

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.

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts

Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.

A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.

The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others.

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

It’s very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race, gender, and style of music into this big party.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

‎"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey

Grow deep roots to harvest rich fruit! When your roots run deep, you cannot help but bear the fruit of the Spirit.

There seemed to be endless obstacles - it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

When your roots grow out and things go south, go back to the salon

Shallow breathing is the root of all evil but conscious deep breathing restores and secures our souls.

Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have.

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

I want to try different things but, most importantly, always be true to my roots and keep it organic. I'm never going to leave bachata behind. I'm always going to be a bachatero first.

At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas – what ideas are for, what jobs they do.

Bless us, divine number, who generated gods and men. Number contains the root and source of eternally flowing creation.

They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.

The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings.

I had rather get a root canal without anesthesia than to call your customer service office for help.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs.

For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.

Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.

I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.

All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce.

I seem restless, but am deeply at ease. Branches tremble; the roots are still.

The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

Darwinism is a pagan religion whose roots go back to the Sumerians and Ancient Egypt.

As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.

The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.

I think people just like rooting. If they like you, they're going to want to root for you and you're one of theirs. And if they don't like you? It doesn't matter.

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on.

Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen.

Complaining is never powerful because at the root of a complaint is powerlessness

My heart wants roots My mind wants wings. I cannot bear Their bickerings.