Quotes about roots
roots fruit rotten
Anger is the fruit of rotten roots. Joyce Meyer
roots personality suffering
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons. Miguel de Unamuno
roots people levels
People have the most control over their affairs at the grass-roots level. Anything that can be fairly and efficiently handled at a grass-roots level should be thus handled, and only delegated to a higher authority when necessary. Peace Pilgrim
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 insanity mind
You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there. Eckhart Tolle
roots dirt fruit
A writer is nothing but a gray dirt-covered root. The works he sends up into the sunlight are his fruits, and only those are worthy of attention. Herman Wouk
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 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 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 tree earth
No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots. Maya Angelou
roots evil world
The belief in a single truth is the root cause for all evil in the world. Max Born
roots evil world
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.
roots islands sorrow
From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping. Pablo Neruda
roots tree splendor
Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots?
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 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 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 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 way reform
We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way. Tony Abbott