Quotes about roots
roots track tragedy
Gershwin's tragedy was not that he failed to cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there in his new habitat, was deprived of the chance to plunge his roots firmly into the new soil. George Gershwin
roots cinema subconscious
The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply Luis Bunuel
roots addiction shame
Shame is the root of all addictions. John Bradshaw
roots evil littles
Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings. Eric Hoffer
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 genius authenticity
The words "genius" and "genuine" derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity. Alan Cohen
roots america imagination
Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England, and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African. Nelson Mandela
roots leaves-of-grass imagine
I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.' John Green
roots broken guy
I have never really thought of him as a person, either.... A guy whose strings were broken, who didn’t feel the root of his leaves of grass connected to the field, a guy who was cracked. Like me.
roots radical
To be radical is to grasp things by the root. Karl Marx
roots anorexia artistic
Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”. Julia Cameron
roots impact moustache
A lesser moustache, under the impact of that quick, agonised expulsion of breath, would have worked loose at the roots. P. G. Wodehouse
roots evil sin
He who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil. Ovid
roots phenomenology ears
Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground. Marshall McLuhan
roots sin suspicion
The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good. Oswald Chambers
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 daisies pulling
Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing! Neal A. Maxwell
roots squares square-roots
The square root of nothing. R. D. Laing
roots stronger way
Something aches at the very core of me, something ancient and deep and stronger than words: the filament that joins each of us to the root of existence, that ancient thing unfurling and resisting and grappling, desperately, for a foothold, a way to stay here, breathe, keep going. Lauren Oliver
roots serendipity trying
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations. Paul Cezanne
roots pigs want
I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root. Kingsley Amis
roots common-sense teeth
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you have something that isn't right, the earlier you treat it the easier the treatment is going to be. That's kind of common sense. Olivia Newton-John
roots violence ephemeral
While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place. Marcus Tullius Cicero
roots squares square-roots
Square root of a cosine? How is that ever going to be useful? Aprilynne Pike
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