“This is my prayer to thee, my lord - strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart. Give me the… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two… — Juliet Stevenson Copy Share Image
E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain, Oft have I seen the war of… — Virgil Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a "spiritual" religion, like some religions of the east. It is an intensely "practical" religion, having its moral roots… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
One day I shall write a little book of conduct myself, and I shall call it Social Problems of the Unsociable. And… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I'm always going to feel like the underdog. I feel like that's the kind of mind-set I want to have and if… — Adam Thielen Copy Share Image
A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety;… — Confucius Copy Share Image
She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I am proud of my black roots and of the black blood that runs in my veins. — Ryan Giggs Copy Share Image
John Bunyan, while he had a surpassing genius, would not condescend to cull his language from the garden of flowers; but he… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Negative feelings are like weeds. If you don't fully extract them (i.e. pull out the roots), they will come back. — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
Our mania for rational explanations obviously has its roots in our fear of metaphysics, for the two were always hostile brothers. Hence,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I consider myself a jazz singer. I think I stick to the roots of improvisation, singing in front of the beat, behind… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
The real question is, do you root for the fox in that song? Or are you horrified that the goose and the… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all. — Angelique Kidjo Copy Share Image
When I consider the state of things in our fief, I find that those who hold positions and receive official stipends are… — Yoshida Shoin Copy Share Image
I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Land is a nation's basis for existence. The nation has its roots like those of a tree deep in the country's soil… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
