Quotes about roots
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
roots soul body
God bless the roots! Body and soul are one. Theodore Roethke
roots wealth force
No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us. Theodore Roosevelt
roots people tree
Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people. Malcolm X
roots hatred doctrine
Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love. Mahatma Gandhi
roots grandpa water
They grow in layers, like the spirit does. That's what Grandpa Sam used to say, anyway. You just got to keep the roots in a clear stream and not let nobody taint the water for you. James Lee
roots use convenient
Whenever something is convenient or was modified after 1970, you probably shouldn't use it as root. John Huston
roots sky knows
Everyone knows what their roots are, but you've got to explore everywhere. You've got to explore the sky too. Mick Jagger
roots champion able
My ability to get through my day greatly depends on the relationship that I have with other women...We have to be able to champion other women. We have to root for each other's successes and not delight in one another's failures. Michelle Obama
roots damage forests
The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner. John Muir
roots guilt sin
By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin John Wesley
roots america socialism
Socialism never took root in America. John Steinbeck
roots america politics
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
roots grace cost
Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it grace. John Piper
roots miracle meditation
And the miracle is: if you can go into your suffering as a meditation, watching, to the deepest roots of it, just through watching, it disappears. You don't have to do anything more than watching. If you have found the authentic cause by your watching, the suffering will disappear. Rajneesh
roots meditation feelings
Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence—which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence.
roots apathy ordinary
When you open up to the ultimate, immediately it pours into you. You are no longer an ordinary human being - you have transcended. Your insight has become the insight of the whole existence. Now you are no longer separate - you have found your roots.
roots heavy duty
Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots Smokey Robinson
roots havens
I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots