Roots Quotes · Page 31

Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.

— Viktor Orban

My mother told me when I left for college, 'Never forget your roots,' and I never have.

— Laura Ingraham

By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin

— John Wesley

Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises.

— Gary Gygax

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.

— Vincent Massey

The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.

— Anonymous

Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.

— Alison Bechdel

“It is not our job to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves Like the trees, and be born again, Drawing…

— Robert Bly

Perhaps, he thought, true pure love, like all flowers, flourished best with its roots in muck and mud. Perhaps that was a…

— Harry Mulisch

The Rosary is the most excellent form of prayer and the most efficacious means of attaining eternal life. It is the remedy…

— Pope Leo XIII

Actually, it doesn't matter to the papers why you left Glasgow. They never look at the roots of the problems you had,…

— Jimmy Somerville

I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?

— Michael Behe

An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but…

— William James

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like…

— Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and…

— Burning Spear

It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed.…

— Yoshida Shoin

As long as we live in a system of states, and as long as the roots of fascism and imperialist aggression have…

— Vyacheslav Molotov

It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots,…

— Hector Berlioz

A conventional valuation which is established as the outcome of the mass psychology of a large number of ignorant individuals is liable…

— John Maynard Keynes

It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those…

— Werner Heisenberg

As the three of them walked home from the trees, nobody needed to say it, but Ama knew. They had questioned their…

— Ann Brashares

The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of…

— Brigham Young

I started realizing that one of the great things about opera is that if you make the right kind of story, you…

— Tod Machover

There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had…

— Paul Klee

True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.

— May Sarton

Thinking goes on in your head. It is not really deep into the roots of your being; it is not your totality.

— Anonymous

Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.

— Anonymous

Think I'm gettin' sick, I'm feelin' illegal/ And not having money is the root of all evil

— Lil Wayne

Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future.

— Philippe Kahn

All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming.

— Eda LeShan

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.

— Jesse Tyler Ferguson

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

— Ludwig von Mises

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Millennials aspire to marry the blue skies thinking of the Boomers with the grass-roots mindset of GenX.

— Mal Fletcher

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea

— Mick Taylor

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Marley Natural is a brand with deep roots in the life and legacy of our father, Bob Marley.

— Cedella Marley

Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root.

— Laozi

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

— Jimmy Page