Roots Quotes · Page 42

“The seed of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.”

— Joseph Henry

“Let roots grow where love was lost. Honor the life that they had, even though it was short.”

— Laura C. Reden

I spent time living in Ethiopia, learning about the cultural importance of coffee and its roots in Ethiopia.

— Rohan Marley

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

— Charles Dickens

What you have to do if you are going to treat any disease is get to the root of the disease.

— Ron Rosedale

Ideas must counter ideas. You can drop all the bombs you want, but if you don't pull up weeds by their roots,…

— Hamza Yusuf

We can't fix the real problems if we only cauterize and don't treat the roots of evil.

— Emmanuel Macron

I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

The reason why Botswana has done very well is because it's the only black African country which went back to its roots…

— George Ayittey

Our love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that's why the clay and…

— Pablo Neruda

Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant…

— Maria Montessori

Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney…

— Nicholas Culpeper

We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their…

— William James

The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father had already found his place, but for…

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

The stone is strong. Bran told himself, the roots of the trees go deep, and under the ground the Kings of Winter…

— Anonymous

We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take…

— Mao Zedong

“Provocative. Striking. Rachel Resnick is a virtuoso on the page. Her fearless examination of the desperate thirst to find love is guaranteed…

— Samantha Dunn

Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more…

— Jane Goodall

Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms.…

— Francesca Lia Block

We have all been hypnotized into thinking that we are smaller than we are. Just as an undersized flowerpot keeps a mighty…

— Alan Cohen

As of right this second my main focus is my new album, it'll be out probably towards the summertime, predominately R&B this…

— Ne-Yo

The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is…

— Zhuangzi

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for…

— Khalil Gibran

If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the…

— Charles Lindbergh

The belief in a single truth is the root cause for all evil in the world.

— Max Born

Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ.

— Joyce Meyer

But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.

— Edvard Munch

Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture.

— Billy Graham

No American worth his salt should go looking around for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable…

— Wyndham Lewis

Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.

— Robert Carlyle

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

— John Vanbrugh

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

— Deborah Norville

And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.

— Moliere

People in general want to build somebody up and then try to knock them down. They always root for the underdog.

— Wayne Gretzky

“My roots are ready, but I’ll manage to grow only with the help of others. Not just you or J. or my…

— Paulo Coelho

The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.

— Keith Ablow

Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making.

— Vera Nazarian

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

— Carl Sandburg

I was always taught to be myself, be honest, and be true to my roots.

— Christina Tosi

If you had one word to describe the root of all this rage, it's humiliation.

— Hamza Yusuf