Roots Quotes · Page 34

Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name-- I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure…

— Ayn Rand

I think it is important to maintain your personality, your roots, very important.

— Paz Vega

I planted a seed of hatred in my heart. I swore it would grow to be a massive tree whose roots would…

— Ruta Sepetys

A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long…

— Wallace Stegner

When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over…

— Anonymous

We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the…

— Nikola Tesla

It's really important to me to stick to my roots by doing what's West Coast: wearing T-shirts and shorts.

— Kenny Stills

I love the urban comedies, because they keep you famous, keep you having fun, and keep you in love with the business.…

— Terry Crews

Talent doesn't win. Hard work, determination, and character wins. If you root your talent and ability in those things, then you have…

— Erwin McManus

The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose…

— John Denver

I decided to become a community organizer ... Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a…

— Barack Obama

All moods have a cause. If you change the root cause, then your mood will follow suit. Furthermore, mood is a choice.…

— Liz Miller

In the 50 years I've spent helping people to overcome illness, disability and disease, it has become crystal clear that poor bowel…

— Bernard Jensen

The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True "I" enjoys…

— Ramana Maharshi

[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian…

— Gottfried Leibniz

Virtue is the panacea for both body and mind. The virtuous person can be both healthy and happy. How is virtue to…

— Sathya Sai Baba

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.…

— Alvin Toffler

There is no one "root of all evil" in software development. Design is hard in many ways. People tend to underestimate the…

— Bjarne Stroustrup

The question of real, lasting world peace concerns human beings, so basic human feelings are also at its roots. Through inner peace,…

— Dalai Lama

My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,- if I could have been invisible, all the better. . . to…

— John Ruskin

Y is for YGGDRASIL. The legendary Nordic ash tree with its three roots extending into the lands of mortals, giants, and Niflheim,…

— Harlan Ellison

When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it…

— Louis de Bernieres

Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed…

— Samuel Smiles

Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy.

— Robert Townsend

I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pillow.

— Francisco X. Alarcon

I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the…

— Gottlob Frege

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for…

— Robert Farrar Capon

I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll.

— Hozier

marriages do not take root in the presence of witnesses but only in the consciousness of the persons involved.

— Libbie Block

There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you.

— Rajneesh

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is…

— Edward Abbey

I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.

— Bryant H. McGill

I didn't truly understand the depth of my roots until I was old enough to wonder and care.

— Aeriel Miranda

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

— Robert Bly

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

— Dalai Lama

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

— David Mallet

God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the…

— Angelus Silesius