Roots Quotes · Page 24

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

— Gautama Buddha

Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots

— Tupac Shakur

Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.

— William Carey

Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of…

— Cindy Sheehan

Many of us refuse to grow where we are put; consequently, we take root nowhere.

— Oswald Chambers

Constant rotation, based on a 19th century Army model, prevents spouses from putting down roots and gaining meaningful deployment.

— Robert Wilkie

The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present.

— Erich Fromm

You can tell I'm a very, very British person, but I've kept my roots quite strong. I still speak Farsi.

— Omid Djalili

My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many…

— Kate Zambreno

Our tired, old politics is tearing at the seams. The Lib Dems have returned to their local roots, just as a more…

— Layla Moran

I stay close to my roots and my family. I never want to forget any part of it. I'm still just a…

— Dolly Parton

With the ripening of the fruits in Autumn the leaves begin to wither and the trees, taking up their sap from the…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Kids under, I'd say, 14 are still maturing; they are still growing. They are still understanding themselves. To hit them with something…

— Malachi Kirby

Passyunk Productions is our film & tv production company. The name comes from a street in Philly, Passyunk Avenue, where the concept…

— Black Thought

Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots…

— Laozi

If you don't have the roots somewhere, it's very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person…

— Sophia Loren

A person with faith does not question its roots, for he knows that if he subjected it to the critical examination of…

— Alexander Lowen

This the American Black man knows: his fight is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or he wins. He will…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring…

— Cecelia Ahern

In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of…

— Calvin Coolidge

We are living at a time when the Prostestant church is rediscovering the truth that transformation in Christ occurs through the disciplines…

— Greg Oden

Our great need is not ardour to save man but courage to face God - courage to face God with our soul…

— Peter Forsyth

If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see…

— Alfred de Musset

“These people came into the world and left it bound to their soil, proliferating on their own dung-hills with slow deliberation like…

— Émile Zola

Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

— Saib Tabrizi

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The Beatles, Dylan and Rolling Stones are definitely my earliest roots.

— Michael Penn

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way…

— Juliette Binoche

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!

— Saadi

I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies

— Henry Paulson

I think 'Roots' is a courageous record with some really cool stuff in it.

— Max Cavalera

I'm down with the crew like Mussolini in Italy. I rock with The Roots like the Giving Tree.

— Talib Kweli

The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

“Habits, places and faces grew into you over time, like tree roots burrowing into stone work.”

— Frances Hardinge

This is certainly the raunchiest, if you use that word, raunchy. The roots of Jim Henson, though, was adult comedy.

— Brian Henson

I'm a huge NBA fan and watch many games each year. Following any sport is kind of bringing us back to our…

— John Mackey

Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.

— Ogden Nash

Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.

— Julian Baggini