Quotes about roots
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 evil and-love
Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil. Edward Abbey
roots trade interaction
That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade. Billy Corgan
roots mind individuality
Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality. Bharati Mukherjee
roots hatred interest
Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds. Antoine Rivarol
roots making-money great-company
The root of great companies is make meaning vs. make money. Guy Kawasaki
roots america house
If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites. Greg Gutfeld
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 dna alive
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roots progress done
I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress. Hillary Clinton
roots racism abortion
Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.
roots and-love brideshead-revisited
... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom. Evelyn Waugh
roots growth weak
Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up. Friedrich Nietzsche
roots virtue economy
The love of economy is the root of all virtue. George Bernard Shaw
roots tree bud
The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree. Isaac Newton
roots san
That's where my roots were San Luis Obispo.
roots ideas creation
Ideas are the root of creation. Ernest Dimnet
roots ideas creation
Ideas are the roots of creation.
roots erosion way
There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem. Mike Royko
roots people principles
Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles. Millicent Fenwick
roots people underdog
People might look at you as super-weird, but if that's your obsession, go for it. I do like a lot of mainstream stuff, and sometimes I also like different stuff. I tend to always root for the underdog. Kristen Bell
roots secret poet
A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away. Ivan Turgenev
roots car forever
At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers. Nick Mancuso
roots daisies pulling
Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing! Neal A. Maxwell
roots giving identity
I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity Frank Herbert
roots osama-bin-laden hell
I went to see that movie 'From Hell,' or as Osama bin Laden calls it - 'Roots.' Jay Leno
roots laughing long
You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh. Jason Gann
roots pigs want
I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root. Kingsley Amis
roots common-sense teeth
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you have something that isn't right, the earlier you treat it the easier the treatment is going to be. That's kind of common sense. Olivia Newton-John
roots violence ephemeral
While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place. Marcus Tullius Cicero
roots storm deeper
Storms make oaks take deeper root. George Herbert