Quotes about roots
roots do-not-fear bottom
I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there. Sylvia Plath
roots evil body
The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin. Swami Vivekananda
roots ease branches
I seem restless, but am deeply at ease. Branches tremble; the roots are still. Rumi
roots self self-discovery
Come to the Root of the Root of your Self
roots people tree
People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots. Tom Robbins
roots alaska petitions
Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time. Tom Bodett
roots evil debugging
Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming. Tony Hoare
roots fruit cant-change
You can't change the fruit without changing the root. Stephen Covey
roots modern-life demand
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful. Thomas Merton
roots heaven might
If you don't root for the Dodgers, you might not get into heaven, Tommy Lasorda
roots knowing design
Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history. Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertent plagiarism. Steven Heller
roots people hatred
There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most pernicious thing, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself." "With words. Steven Erikson
roots trying film
I am trying to stay away from this position of me "returning to my roots." As if my roots are that I'm only comfortable working on low-budget, small films. That's not the case at all. Spike Lee
roots cages would-be
I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie. Robbie Robertson
roots way financial
The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem. Suze Orman
roots government add
The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases. Josiah Stamp
roots ego plant
The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it. Ramana Maharshi
roots perspective goodness
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. Ralph Waldo Emerson
roots evil religion
Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil. Richard Dawkins
roots evil one-thing
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
roots trying want
I want to try different things but, most importantly, always be true to my roots and keep it organic. I'm never going to leave bachata behind. I'm always going to be a bachatero first. Romeo Santos
roots differences judging
It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad. Umberto Eco
roots trying progressive
I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured. Rick James
roots errors envy
It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root. Paracelsus
roots etymology sin
The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'. Mary Daly
roots giving justice
It is necessary not only to relieve the gravest needs but to go to their roots, proposing measures that will give social, political and economic structures a more equitable and solidaristic configuration. Pope Benedict XVI
roots keys names
the path of goodness had a name it is called Love in it we find the key to every hope and has it's root in God Himself Pope John Paul II
roots creation possibility
The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation. Pope Francis
roots evil social
Inequality is the root of social evil.
roots white america
If I were in politics, and if you ever get me in the White House, trust me, there's a big change coming. What happened to America? We lost our roots. Phil Robertson
roots grass remove
To kill the grass you must also remove the root Pol Pot
roots selfishness branches
Indeed, beauty is one of mankind's greatest needs; it is the root from which the branches of our peace and the fruits of our hope come forth. Beauty also reveals God because, like him, a work of beauty is pure gratuity; it calls us to freedom and draws us away from selfishness.
roots growth down-and
Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. Robert Fulghum