Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and "ideas," and to plant their roots firmly in… — William Vogt Copy Share Image
Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast. — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism. — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
At the root of fear is low self-esteem. This explains why angry people have low self-esteem, are argumentative, stubborn, and quick to… — David J. Lieberman Copy Share Image
Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind; so faith takes firmer hold when… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
My roots are very closely tied to the DNA of the brand. Growing up in Serbia where women are unapologetically very feminine,… — Roksanda Ilincic Copy Share Image
Meditation is the only cure for all sicknesses that man is prone to; a single medicine. And I should remind you that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One thing is sure, O comrades, that the love That fights to keep us rooted in the earth, But also urges us… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships,… — Lee L Jampolsky Copy Share Image
Whatis the root of all these words? One thing: Love. But a love so deep and sweet it needed to express itself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
From the seed grows a root, then a sprout; from the sprout, the seedling leaves; from the leaves, the stem; around the… — Mary Caroline Richards Copy Share Image
A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
I certainly feel I'm carrying the flag for Britain. I feel an honour in that but, at the same time, knowing my… — Chris Froome Copy Share Image
And thus flowed the current of life. The seeds of the silverbell were converted into squirrel; and squirrels were converted into foxes.… — Harvey Broome Copy Share Image
At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character--an assault that assumes that we… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
The lordship of man over man is the root cause of all corrupt rule. In the light of this principle, no laws… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured. — Rick James Copy Share Image
Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops. — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
Because of our Turkish roots, we still have a very strong relationship with Turkey. — Ilkay Gundogan Copy Share Image
We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular -… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
If you're going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism. — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots. — Richard Mabey Copy Share Image
When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. — Anthony J. D'Angelo Copy Share Image
The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
I changed my name when we became aware of the African revolution and the whole question of our African roots. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Poetry has roots, and sometimes they are aerial. Sometimes they are buried. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
