Roots Quotes · Page 33

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

— Dalai Lama

I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.

— Robert Bly

Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time

— Vincent de Paul

I don't think, to be a traveler, you have to reject setting roots up.

— Mat Kearney

If the story-teller is to nourish the roots of his culture, society must set him free to follow his vision wherever it…

— Mahesh Bhatt

A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

— Pope Francis

I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena.

— Francisco Varela

When we as a nation, strive in vain to preserve the beauty of our national life, forgetting our biblical roots, we are…

— Richard Halverson

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of…

— Paul Tagliabue

Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the…

— Rebecca Miller

Cancel me not - for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a…

— Stanislaw Lem

The truth that I know for sure is that I may have an opinion, but I do not know the truth, and…

— Grant Bowler

Everything that makes a society run is broken in Iraq. The only real structure is the people's own sense of themselves as…

— Bruce Cockburn

Either I am rootless or I have my roots spread out so much that I cannot spot my primary root. I believe…

— Ashish Vidyarthi

Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular…

— Jon Landau

Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes…

— Thomas Berry

“Why roots were rated so highly compared with branches or leaves, Peri had never understood. Trees had multiple shoots and filaments extending…

— Elif Shafak

I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One…

— Anonymous

Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our…

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind;…

— Jodi Picoult

Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that…

— Andrew Schneider

After my bar mitzvah, I started to assimilate, to really not pay attention to my roots. The anti-Semitic experiences of my youth…

— Joel Grey

Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was…

— Ron Fournier

I agree with Clyde Wilson that America can’t be saved or returned to its roots until the Republican Party is destroyed.

— Thomas DiLorenzo

Although I have started my solo activities but this doesnt mean I'll give up my roots, SS501 is my root .

— Kim Hyun-joong

We all have to consciously make efforts to identify our roots and nurture them.

— Vetrimaaran

Poland is my home, my roots are here. There is nowhere I would rather live.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Of course, our roots are in Germany, it always will be the feeling of home.

— Bill Kaulitz

“Love people who hate you and their hatred won’t get grounds to gain roots.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be…

— Nicholas Sparks

Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.

— Sharon Salzberg

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self.

— Alfred Edersheim

I'm a Puerto Rican woman whose family has roots in Regla de Ocha, also known as Santeria.

— Princess Nokia

Our love is principle, and has its root In reason, is judicious, manly, free.

— William Cowper

I had rather get a root canal without anesthesia than to call your customer service office for help.

— Jon Jones

A tree without roots will fall over, whereas a tree with roots eventually becomes part of a forest.

— Margrethe II of Denmark

Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune.

— Laozi

“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of…

— Roman Payne