Root Quotes

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The word "question" originates from the Latin root, quaestio, which means "to seek." Inside the word "question" is the word "quest," suggesting that within every… — Tom Wujec
Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees… — Lawrence Hargrave
God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully… — Bernard of Clairvaux
Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm.… — Saint John Chrysostom
Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown… — Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness. — William Carey
Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the fact that we… — Carter Heyward
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out. — Mary Wollstonecraft
The last time I had this much fun was a root-canal operation. — Larry Ziegler
Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use is only for… — Rajneesh
The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is quiet because he… — Zhuangzi
True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root. — May Sarton
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it. — Henry Fielding
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that… — Albert Camus
Unless you heal the root of a problem, the pain will not go away. You can hide from it, but the problem stays until you… — Leon Brown
The square root of 69 is 8(ate) som' — Drake
After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart. — Andy Andrews
The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it — Colin Powell
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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