Quotes about roots
roots fascists asks
Nobody can ask us to abjure our fascist roots. Gianfranco Fini
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 curves tree
A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?
roots way classic
I grew up watching classic animation, and I have always felt that the roots of animation is in fantasy and taking it in places that you can't go, any other way. Chris Wedge
roots evil long
The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil. George Orwell
roots evil enough
The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money. Gene Simmons
roots bullshit evil
There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.
roots fruit virtue
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. Felix Adler
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 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 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 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 branches sin
On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins. King James I
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 evil racism
Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It's not racism and "this-ism" and "that-ism"; it's our thirst and hunger for money. And that's where all the bodies are buried. Ice Cube
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 storm deeper
Storms make oaks take deeper root. George Herbert
roots challenges storm
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
roots effort matter
It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial. Georg C. Lichtenberg
roots solitude purpose
I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had led me to live in a parallel world of pure invention, shut inside my solitude. Naturally, it was precisely for that purpose that it was made and that was why I took pleasure in it, but I wanted to regain body and roots. Jean Dubuffet
roots knowing giving
Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on. Gloria Gaither
roots america political
The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America (is that it) has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal relationships that inevitably develop between politicians and journalists. Hunter S. Thompson
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.