Roots Quotes

Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.

Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God who made us and not we ourselves. But we were made to be co-creators with our maker.

The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.

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

Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.

I always root for the monster.

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

Fixedness of purpose is the root of all successful efforts.

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

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.

Ideas are the root of creation.

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.

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

Stereotypes have their roots in truth.

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

Astrology's roots lie in an ancient world-view which perceived the universe as a single living organism, animated by divine order and intelligence.

An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.

Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.

The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we want a liberty of our own different from thine.

Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.

If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments

Success in confronting terrorism on the regional or international levels is contingent upon addressing its root causes and protecting the right of peoples under foreign occupation to resistance

The best part of a great movie is a great villain and I usually have a tendency to root for the bad guy.

Love is the root; obedience is the fruit.

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

The roots of the Divine are entrenched in this body. If you nurture the roots, how can you avoid the flowering?

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.

Ignorance: the root of all evil.

From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.

New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.

Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind; so faith takes firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.

Camera-Phones are at the root of the Citizen-Journalism revolution.

In the 50 years I've spent helping people to overcome illness, disability and disease, it has become crystal clear that poor bowel management lies at the root of most peoples' health problems.

People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.

Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind.

The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.

My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?

In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all suffering. It is the cause of repeated births and deaths. It is the obstacle in the way of liberation.

States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them

The frying pan you should give to your enemy. Food should not be prepared in fat. Our bodies are adapted to a stone age diet of roots and vegetables.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.