Quotes about root
roots rainbow alive
... women have their roots in the ground, and often those roots are starved and ravaged, yet there is not a human alive who cannot reach and touch, with... her fingers, the very top of God's rainbow. Og Mandino
roots people evil
An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social feelings that should exist among the people of God. It is a principle originated in hell; it is the root of all evils. It is inequality in riches that is a great curse. Orson Pratt
roots giving dancing
Music originally had a social function. You were in church, in a concert hall, a marching band; you were dancing. I'm concerned that music could be too separated from its roots and just become a pleasure-giving experience, like a drug. Oliver Sacks
roots joy ends
The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
roots tree tribes
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe. Henry Ward Beecher
roots reason practicals
We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the root of all reason. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
roots use convenient
Whenever something is convenient or was modified after 1970, you probably shouldn't use it as root. John Huston
roots where-we-come
We're all where we come from. We all have our roots. John Guare
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Money is the root of all good. Ayn Rand
root worked
Root was prolific. He worked every day in his studio.
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They are part of the root of what we are as a country, as a nation,
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It was fun. I think for us this is really about the experience, and we're here to root on the other Americans.
roots tree answers
We ask the leaf, "Are you complete in yourself?" And the leaf answers, "No, my life is in the branches." We ask the branch, and the branch answers, "No my life is in the root." We ask the root, and it answers, "No my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves, and I shall die," So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual. Harry Emerson Fosdick
roots generosity certain
Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots. Henry David Thoreau
roots events helping
To get the adrenaline pumping between events - or to help me switch off, Jay Z, the Roots and Drake are on my playlist. Jessica Ennis
roots slave-ships envy
You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. Henry Louis Gates
roots religion enthusiasm
Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits; a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows. Henri Frederic Amiel
roots long miracle
So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and a 'modern miracle.' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics-that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world-that is a different matter! Helen Keller
roots fascists asks
Nobody can ask us to abjure our fascist roots. Gianfranco Fini
roots doe culture
Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things. James Freeman Clarke
roots unity desire
Amid all change, we desire something permanent; amid all variety, something stable; amid all progress, some central unity of life; something which deepens as we ascend; which roots itself as we advance; which grows more and more tenacious of the old, while becoming more and more open to the new.
roots long tree
If thou hadst thy will what wouldst thou reserve?" said Manwe. "Of all thy realm what dost thou hold dearest?" All have their worth," said Yavanna, "and each contributes to the worth of the others. But the kelvar can flee or defend themselves, whereas the olvar that grow cannot. And among these I hold trees dear. Long in the growing, swift shall they be in the felling, and unless they pay toll with fruit upon their bough little mourned in their passing. So I see in my thought, would that the trees might speak on behalf of all things that have roots, and punish those that wrong them! J. R. R. Tolkien
roots tree mountain
What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain.
roots people nerves
When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people. Jennifer Hudson
roots parent way
Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central root in France. I feel French but in a few ways, not at all French. Jean Reno
roots next-level levels
What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the next levels, including also the scientific knowledge. Jean Piaget
roots people worry
At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people. Jeffrey Kluger
roots century made
Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.
roots creating water
People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water. James A. Baldwin
roots levels lockers
You have to know what's happening in the locker rooms, you have to know what's happening at the grass-roots level. That's the best way to work. Jacques Rogge
roots way would-be
I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots. Jack Wild
roots needs
Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots. Christopher Lasch
roots together bigs
I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact - those are my roots, professionally. Chris Noth