Quotes about root
rooting
Gary Beach If I was a shareholder I'd be rooting for a breakup.
roots people worry
Jeffrey Kluger At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.
roots century made
Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.
roots creating water
James A. Baldwin People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water.
roots levels lockers
Jacques Rogge You have to know what's happening in the locker rooms, you have to know what's happening at the grass-roots level. That's the best way to work.
roots way would-be
Jack Wild I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
roots needs
Christopher Lasch Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.
roots progress done
Hillary Clinton I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress.
roots racism abortion
Hillary Clinton Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.
roots and-love brideshead-revisited
Evelyn Waugh ... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
roots way classic
Chris Wedge 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.
roots evil long
George Orwell 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.
roots evil enough
Gene Simmons The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.
roots bullshit evil
Gene Simmons 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
Felix Adler Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
roots slave-ships envy
Henry Louis Gates 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.
roots religion enthusiasm
Henri Frederic Amiel 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.
roots long miracle
Helen Keller 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!
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 tree bud
Isaac Newton 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.
roots tree heaven
Friedrich Nietzsche The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.
roots space stories
Jeanette Winterson When we let ourselves respond to poetry, to music, to pictures, we are clearing a space where new stories can root, in effect we are clearing a space for new stories about ourselves.
roots kung-fu-panda wish
Jennifer Yuh Nelson Po's [Kung Fu Panda] unending enthusiasm is something we wish we could have. We can't help but root for him because of his geek energy.
roots people nerves
Jennifer Hudson When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people.
roots parent way
Jean Reno Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central root in France. I feel French but in a few ways, not at all French.
roots next-level levels
Jean Piaget What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the next levels, including also the scientific knowledge.
roots growth weak
Friedrich Nietzsche Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.
roots virtue economy
George Bernard Shaw The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
roots dna alive
Eoin Colfer (text message) CMDR ROOT. TRBLE BELOW. HAVN OVRRN BY GOBLINS. PLCE PLAZA SRROUNDED. CUDGEON + OPL KBOI BHND PLOT. NO WPONS OR CMMUNICATIONS. DNA CNONS CNTRLLED BY KBOI. I M TRPPED IN OP BTH. CNCL THNKS IM 2 BLM. IF ALIVE PLSE HLP. IF NOT, WRNG NMBR.
roots making-money great-company
Guy Kawasaki The root of great companies is make meaning vs. make money.
roots america house
Greg Gutfeld If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites.
roots
My roots are in entertainment. I've been out on the road, and I know the business.