Quotes about roots
roots hatred interest
Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds. Antoine Rivarol
roots greed strikes
Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root. William Shakespeare
roots evil important
It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is. David Graeber
roots rocks feminist
Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader. Camille Paglia
roots anxiety strange
We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble. Alan Watts
roots soul macau
I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food. China Machado
roots gypsy helping
I'll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I'll always help out one of my own. Cher Lloyd
roots maps littles
We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or else we brood and too firmly root. Very few can step forward again and again in what amounts to veritable leaps into the void, where there are no ready holds, where little is familiar, where you get constantly stuck in the thickets of your uncertainties and fears. Chang-Rae Lee
roots branches littles
We're still who we are at the roots. I reckon, hopefully, you let it branch out a little bit and you learn. You live and learn, so that's what we've tried to do. Eddie Montgomery
roots underdog want
I always loved the Clippers. You root for the underdog. Obviously, everybody in L.A. is a Laker fan, but deep down inside, you root for the Clippers. If you're a true Los Angelean, that's how it happens. You always want the Clippers to do well. Baron Davis
roots mind caves
Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind. Antonin Artaud
roots world violent
A non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet. Casey Kasem
roots tree heaven
No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell. Carl Jung
roots insecurity soil
Jealousy takes root in the soil of insecurity. Beth Moore
roots understanding humans
The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings. Bryant H. McGill
roots looks behavior
If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.
roots work-family fiction
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction. Alan Lightman
roots information lasers
The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society. Alain Aspect
roots tree doe
How do the stems connect to the roots?' 'Where is the mist coming from?' 'Why does one tree seem darker than another?' These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching. Alain de Botton
roots knowing life-worth-living
I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go. Elif Safak
roots house paint
When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots. Edward Ruscha
roots people unhappy
Most people don't relate to and can't generate concern for something they don't encounter personally or feel personally affected by. People have to have the palpable negatives in their lives dissected for them in ways that let them understand the root causes of unhealthy, unhappy conditions in their lives and then be allowed to really see and feel the positive alternatives. Edward Norton
roots incentives profit
The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.
roots church natural
Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots. Aretha Franklin
roots verbs prose
Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen. Barbara Kingsolver
roots squares square-roots
Square root of a cosine? How is that ever going to be useful? Aprilynne Pike
roots use adults
This is certainly the raunchiest, if you use that word, raunchy. The roots of Jim Henson, though, was adult comedy. Brian Henson
roots tree skins
I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees. The feel of rough sun-warmed bark of an ancient forest giant, or the cool, smooth skin of a young and eager sapling, gave me a strange, intuitive sense of the sap as it was sucked up by unseen roots and drawn up to the very tips of the branches, high overhead. Jane Goodall
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 selfishness
Selfishness is the root of great evil. Richard G. Scott
roots half dry
An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est. Benjamin Franklin
roots evil boiler-room
Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any. Ben Affleck
roots united-states slave
There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more primitive instrument. Then it comes to the United States where it morphs into the slave music that they created here, which was very African in origin. Bela Fleck