Roots Quotes · Page 33

The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation.

— Pope Francis

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

— Carl Jung

dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.

— John Green

I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree.

— John Burroughs

I still dabble in different types of music, but I'm sticking to my Country roots.

— Morgan Wallen

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.

— Henry Louis Gates

Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves.

— Confucius

You are the root of heaven, the morning star, the bright moon, the house of endless Love

— Rumi

The unsparing savagery of stories like the Robber Bridegroom is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture…

— Maria Tatar

Some people when I speak of awareness of the "inner body" call it a technique. I would not call it a technique…

— Eckhart Tolle

Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as…

— Vaclav Havel

Too many times we pray for ease, but that's a prayer seldom met. What we need to do is pray for roots…

— Philip Gulley

A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace…

— Edna Buchanan

Kuwait is the origin which our roots extend in it's base. The fort that we seek for shelter and stick to after…

— Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys…

— Ray Bradbury

I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm…

— Maria Menounos

There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement…

— D. Todd Christofferson

Love enters the heart unawares: takes precedence of all the emotions--or, at least, will be second to none--and even reflection becomes its…

— Sophie Swetchine

Faith is the root, the necessary beginning. Hope is the stem, the energy that makes the plant grow. Love is the fruit,…

— Peter Kreeft

Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it…

— Derek Landy

I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more…

— George Carlin

That's when America soars, when we look out for one another and we take care of each other, when we root for…

— Barack Obama

Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for…

— Bill Moyers

And the miracle is: if you can go into your suffering as a meditation, watching, to the deepest roots of it, just…

— Rajneesh

He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that…

— Roger Waters

Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Faith is a principle which hath its root deeper feeling. We believe, whether we see or not.

— Charles Spurgeon

“The only people who make any sense in the world are those who know that whatever happens to them has its roots…

— Robertson Davies

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest…

— Sarah Ruhl

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

— Ray Charles

I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz, but the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC.

— Adrian Grenier

Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.

— John Green

He who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil.

— Ovid

“A tree stands strong not by its fruits or branches, but by the depth of its roots.”

— Anthony Liccione

Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.

— Simone Weil

I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie.

— Robbie Robertson

“I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly. Deborah Norville”

— Deborah Norville

My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.

— Teresa Heinz

I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.

— Quincy Jones