Quotes about roots
roots bait watches
Whenever I watch the beginning of Jimmy Fallon, I feel like I should sue the Roots for bait and switch. Andy Kindler
roots stuff delight
Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff. Alison Bechdel
roots joy putting-yourself-out-there
It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy. Ann Brashares
roots evil selfishness
Selfishness is the root of great evil. Richard G. Scott
roots soul chuck
You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the road. The roots are deep inside us, it's the rhythm in our soul. Brian Wilson
roots evil selfishness
It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of. Bram Stoker
roots mind grows
The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included. Bodhidharma
roots enough loses
God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it. Brennan Manning
roots arrogance arrogant
There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them. Bono
roots causes principles
The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives. Arthur Schopenhauer
roots people insecurity
...we have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its roots in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone and we are not alone when we imitate. It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay. Bruce Lee
roots names style
Jeet Kune Do: it's just a name; don't fuss over it. There's no such thing as a style if you understand the roots of combat.
roots knowing life-worth-living
I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go. Elif Safak
roots house paint
When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots. Edward Ruscha
roots branches littles
We're still who we are at the roots. I reckon, hopefully, you let it branch out a little bit and you learn. You live and learn, so that's what we've tried to do. Eddie Montgomery
roots underdog want
I always loved the Clippers. You root for the underdog. Obviously, everybody in L.A. is a Laker fan, but deep down inside, you root for the Clippers. If you're a true Los Angelean, that's how it happens. You always want the Clippers to do well. Baron Davis
roots example levels
I've been very involved in this quantum holographic formalism and helping to explore it as explanatory of the very root of our perceptual capabilities. It is postulated, for example, that this very basic entanglement, at the quantum level, at the level of subatomic matter, is really a part of quantum mechanics. Edgar Mitchell
roots half dry
An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est. Benjamin Franklin
roots evil boiler-room
Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any. Ben Affleck
roots united-states slave
There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more primitive instrument. Then it comes to the United States where it morphs into the slave music that they created here, which was very African in origin. Bela Fleck
roots government moral
The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government. Aung San Suu Kyi
roots support grass
There is something democratic about grass-roots, widespread money support. There is something anti-democratic about one person propping up a candidate who can't make it. Ari Fleischer
roots brazil
Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots. Clarice Lispector
roots squares square-roots
Square root of a cosine? How is that ever going to be useful? Aprilynne Pike
roots use adults
This is certainly the raunchiest, if you use that word, raunchy. The roots of Jim Henson, though, was adult comedy. Brian Henson
roots tree skins
I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees. The feel of rough sun-warmed bark of an ancient forest giant, or the cool, smooth skin of a young and eager sapling, gave me a strange, intuitive sense of the sap as it was sucked up by unseen roots and drawn up to the very tips of the branches, high overhead. Jane Goodall
roots culture decadence
Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture. Jane Fonda
roots mind caves
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. Antonin Artaud
roots anxiety strange
We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble. Alan Watts
roots evil important
It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is. David Graeber
roots rocks feminist
Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader. Camille Paglia
roots soul macau
I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food. China Machado
roots gypsy helping
I'll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I'll always help out one of my own. Cher Lloyd