Quotes about root
roots long alive
Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. John Green
roots leaves-of-grass imagine
I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.'
roots broken guy
I have never really thought of him as a person, either.... A guy whose strings were broken, who didn’t feel the root of his leaves of grass connected to the field, a guy who was cracked. Like me.
roots impact moustache
A lesser moustache, under the impact of that quick, agonised expulsion of breath, would have worked loose at the roots. P. G. Wodehouse
roots evil sin
He who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil. Ovid
roots phenomenology ears
Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground. Marshall McLuhan
roots causes obstacles
There seemed to be endless obstacles - it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
roots grows refuse
Many of us refuse to grow where we are put; consequently, we take root nowhere. Oswald Chambers
roots sin suspicion
The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
roots mind doe
I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate and take deep root in. No propositions astonish me, no belief offends me, whatever contrast it offers to my own. There is no fancy so frivolous and so extravagant that it does not seem to me quite suitable to the production of the human mind. Michel de Montaigne
roots together bigs
I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact - those are my roots, professionally. Chris Noth
roots imagination
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love. Gilbert Parker
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 tree heaven
The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell. Friedrich Nietzsche
roots branches superficiality
Live in your roots, not in your branches. Nancy Willard
roots interesting income
My roots were pretty far removed from high income. It's interesting to be back there at the level of income I have now, at this stage in my life. Morgan Freeman
roots ideas ancestry
Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea Mick Taylor
roots dirt fruit
A writer is nothing but a gray dirt-covered root. The works he sends up into the sunlight are his fruits, and only those are worthy of attention. Herman Wouk
roots giving tree
For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being is eternity and is hidden from us but none the less gives itself to us for the most part in the power of love and creation. Hermann Hesse
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 want comedic
I have deep comedic roots, and I want to be funny. Khandi Alexander
roots trying important
But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand. Khaled Hosseini
roots growth crowns
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth. Khalil Gibran
roots evil giving
You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive for gain you are but a root that clings to the earth and sucks at her breast. Surely the fruit cannot say to the root, 'Be like me, ripe and full and ever giving of your abundance.' For to the fruit giving is a need as receiving is a need to the root.
roots pie add
[I like to cook] Shepherd's pie, which is a classic British dish. But my version reflects my Jamaican roots, because I add jerk to it as well. Naomie Harris
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 darkness growing
You were the leaves, basking in the sunlight. I was the root, growing in the darkness ~Danzo Masashi Kishimoto
roots kingdoms states
The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head. Mencius
roots silence pockets
Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow. Mark Rothko