Roots Quotes

Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.

Tofu is the root of all evil, and there's only one thing that can change a man's mind, and that's a modified Uzi with an extra-long clip.

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

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

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

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

We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits

The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.

I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there.

Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots?

We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.

Punishment is the root of violence on our planet.

Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.

Woman is the root of all evil.

The pain that comes from deep love makes your love more fruitful. It is like a plow that breaks the ground to allow the seed to take root.

My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.

Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

If you don't have the roots somewhere, it's very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don't know you, really. They don't know how you feel.

Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.

in the air, there your root remains, there, in the air

Have the willingness to go into the roots of your worst fear until you feel the essence of what you are, your pure potential, the foundation of what you really are.

I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace.

My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind.

Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible.

The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True "I" enjoys the stillness of bliss.

Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.

To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

To be fearless no matter what happens-that is the root of true happiness. To move forward resolutely regardless of what lies in store-that is the spirit, the resolve, that leads to human victory.

Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power.

A child is the root of the heart.

Nothing ever comes to an end. Wherever one has sunk roots that emanate from one's best or truest self, one will always find a home.

My hands resemble some ancient tree: the roots that bind up the earth, the rock and the ceaselessly nibbling wordms.

Never root for a team whose uniforms have elastic stretch waistbands.

But not forgiving yourself often becomes the root of severe self-loathing extreme self hatred and intense inhibitions. It will be next to impossible to truly start over when you feel unforgivable.

Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again.

The White House is dismissing these town hall fireworks as AstroTurf movements which means it's the opposite of a true grass roots movement.

Sanctification grows out of faith in Jesus Christ. Reemember holiness is a flower, not a root; it is not sanctification that saves, but salvation that sanctifies.

Shame is the root of all addictions.

As a kid I didn't root for the bad guys.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Always root for the winner. That way you won't be disappointed.

The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.

Fixedness of purpose is the root of all successful efforts.

Stereotypes have their roots in truth.

How can money be the root of all evil when shopping is the cure for all sadness?

The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized.