Roots Quotes · Page 44

Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

— Saint John Chrysostom

The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.

— Maria Montessori

I like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able.

— Frances Moore Lappé

Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same…

— Nora Roberts

Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write?

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.

— Jacques Audiard

You cannot build a grass-roots campaign unless you are connecting with people.

— Ted Cruz

I seem restless, but am deeply at ease. Branches tremble; the roots are still.

— Rumi

It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom…

— Black Elk

Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls…

— Jane Fonda

[I like to cook] Shepherd's pie, which is a classic British dish. But my version reflects my Jamaican roots, because I add…

— Naomie Harris

Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new…

— Rajneesh

Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World -…

— Swami Vivekananda

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we…

— Donald Knuth

Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real…

— Anonymous

There is a lot of learned material written about nationalism - scholarly books and papers, histories of it, theories of it -…

— Anne Applebaum

And I can imagine Farmer saying he doesn't care if no one else is willing to follow their example. He's still going…

— Tracy Kidder

In the NFL game today, there are a lot of better athletes than I am, and quarterbacks these days are faster than…

— Peyton Manning

Our doctrinal obligation is to our own ancestors. This is because the celestial organization of heaven is based on families. The First…

— Quentin L. Cook

I really gave up being passionate about politics 10, 15, 20 years ago, because I think finally that there were forces in…

— Norman Mailer

Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If…

— Polly Young-Eisendrath

I'm one of the few reading and thinking people who loves Las Vegas for the vulgarity and omnipresence of the dream. The…

— Werner Herzog

Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the…

— Anonymous

Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

— Vincent Van Gogh

We are destined to be roots, trunks, branches, and wings. When flying is out of reach, we are two hands of dirt…

— Mariana Fulger

Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.

— Edward Young

Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.

— Vincent de Paul

Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Many for whom the stage has been the launch pad to cinema have forgotten their roots. I don't intend to, ever.

— Y. G. Mahendran

That's the great thing that happened with 'Roots.' It opened up the dialogue.

— Leslie Uggams

Bjork is one of my oldest friends so we share the friendship and common roots. That is what we build on when…

— Sjon

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'

— Whit Stillman

Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.

— Frederic Bastiat

When I was in school, my first acknowledgement of 'Roots' was Kunta Kinte.

— Malachi Kirby

Unless you have strong roots in films, music, art, painting, or theatre, you can't talk high and think internationally.

— Shabana Azmi

I manage every player as well as I possibly can, regardless of which club they're from, what their roots are.

— Gareth Southgate

We have our roots in country, and that's our foundation, but we pull from a lot.

— Dave Haywood

And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot.

— Ben Jonson

Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.

— Simone Weil