Quotes about root
roots feelings stories
I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories. Ted Naifeh
roots intellectual facts
Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Ralph Waldo Emerson
roots design months
Designing a tour is a daily thing. I work on it every day for several months. I’m involved with every department, from lighting, sound, music direction, the visual direction. The set list is something I create myself and that’s the root of everything Shania Twain
roots tree fruit
You can't have the fruits without the roots. Stephen Covey
roots way winner
Always root for the winner. That way you won't be disappointed. Tug McGraw
roots events remember
My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all. Suzanne Collins
roots bores-you boredom
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings. Soren Kierkegaard
roots world care
I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform. Swami Vivekananda
roots way reform
We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way. Tony Abbott
roots use branches
What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform. Tony Blair
roots self deception
If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it! Robert A. Heinlein
roots
I'm getting back to my old roots. Tiger Woods
roots way alex
Alex Hailey, who traced his roots all the way to the back of the bus. Never got a dinner! Red Buttons
roots circles ancestor
Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope. Toni Morrison
roots do-not-fear bottom
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. Sylvia Plath
roots evil body
The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.
roots ease branches
I seem restless, but am deeply at ease. Branches tremble; the roots are still. Rumi
roots self self-discovery
Come to the Root of the Root of your Self
roots people tree
People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots. Tom Robbins
roots alaska petitions
Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time. Tom Bodett
roots evil debugging
Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming. Tony Hoare
roots fruit cant-change
You can't change the fruit without changing the root.
roots modern-life demand
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful. Thomas Merton
roots heaven might
If you don't root for the Dodgers, you might not get into heaven, Tommy Lasorda
roots knowing design
Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history. Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertent plagiarism. Steven Heller
roots people hatred
There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most pernicious thing, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself." "With words. Steven Erikson
roots trying film
I am trying to stay away from this position of me "returning to my roots." As if my roots are that I'm only comfortable working on low-budget, small films. That's not the case at all. Spike Lee
roots cages would-be
I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie. Robbie Robertson
roots way financial
The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem. Suze Orman
roots government add
The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases. Josiah Stamp
roots ego plant
The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it. Ramana Maharshi
roots perspective goodness
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
roots tough-times desolate
When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them through the tough times. Lee Greenwood