Roots Quotes · Page 45

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

— Francisco X. Alarcon

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

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

— Robert Townsend

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

— Aeriel Miranda

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

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more!…

— John Keats

No man beholds his mother's womb Yet who denies it's there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord…

— Wole Soyinka

In taking Dell private, we plan to go back to our roots, focusing on the entrepreneurial spirit that made Dell one of…

— Michael Dell

“Roots cannot grow into trees if there are no supernatural elements in the soil. Man cannot grow wealthy and famous if he…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I fired a bunch of people and kind of went back to my roots. I fired my agent - I had this…

— Matthew Lillard

Traditions are our roots and a profile of who we are as individuals and who we are as a family. They are…

— Lidia Bastianich

Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Every small problem most likely stems from the same root as large problems, and so there is no need to always go…

— Pema Chodron

I grew up on the lake and spent most of that time outdoors. As a musician, I travel widely around the country…

— Gord Downie

My own personal theory is that all popular music, in whatever form it is, to me, it all comes from Africa. Whether…

— Paul Weller

When you have your own kid, it suddenly makes you more aware of how your parents treated you and educated you. Your…

— Juergen Teller

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a…

— Saint Augustine

But guilt is guilt. It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified. It can't even be fully understood, I'm certain - it's…

— Anonymous

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as the…

— Sylvia Plath

For someone whose roots in America were strong but only inches deep, and who had no experience, such as a Catholic child…

— Philip Roth

You still love me - even if there's one expression of it that you will always feel and want, but will not…

— Ayn Rand

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

— Bryant H. McGill

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

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

— Libbie Block

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

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

— Dalai Lama

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

I don't think, to be a traveler, you have to reject setting roots up.

— Mat Kearney

If the story-teller is to nourish the roots of his culture, society must set him free to follow his vision wherever it…

— Mahesh Bhatt

A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

— Pope Francis

When we as a nation, strive in vain to preserve the beauty of our national life, forgetting our biblical roots, we are…

— Richard Halverson

I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena.

— Francisco Varela

Each free kick carries my name, and all are my children. And they have South American roots.

— Andrea Pirlo

What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.

— William P. Leahy