Roots Quotes · Page 82

This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another…

— R.K. Narayan

The roots of a child's ability to cope and thrive, regardless of circumstance, lie in that child's having had at least a…

— Fred Rogers

Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that…

— John Owen

After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.

— Yo-Yo Ma

Her business manager said, you know, Gilda [Radner] left you that house. That's when I decided to stay and test it out.…

— Gene Wilder

The rishis of old attained the Knowledge of Brahman. One cannot have this so long as there is the slightest trace of…

— Ramakrishna

Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.

— Richard Foreman

I live just outside of Salt Lake City in a place called Emigration Canyon. It's on the Mormon trail. So I feel…

— Terry Tempest Williams

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

— Le Corbusier

The only form of revolution beneficial to the people is one which destroys the entire state to the roots and exterminates all…

— Sergey Nechayev

The scientific and societal achievements of the modern age are undisputable. But after the French Revolution, modernity increasingly emancipated itself from Christian…

— Walter Kasper

I don't think I've ever spoken to anyone who's told me that the story of 'Roots' isn't important.

— Malachi Kirby

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

— Bryant H. McGill

We are living at a time when the Prostestant church is rediscovering the truth that transformation in Christ occurs through the disciplines…

— Greg Oden

Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.

— Barbara Tuchman

Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, while trying at the same time to remove their hold. Imagination is…

— Sri Yukteswar Giri

The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but…

— Andrew Murray

I came out of independent film, that's my roots. I used my independent film as a laboratory, and used what I could…

— Nicolas Cage

[Bob] Dylan's many quotations from classic American roots music (that song is from an album aptly titled Love and Theft) join the…

— Jay Michaelson

I give thank for God for my roots in the Word of Faith teachings. It is truly on the shoulders of great…

— Joseph Prince

The average household might prepare for root canal, traffic accident, unemployment or illness, but how the household will meet, manage and even…

— John Longenecker

We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain. We do not remember the red roots whence we rose, but…

— Conrad Aiken

The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root…

— George Eliot

I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth…

— D. H. Lawrence