Root Quotes

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The average household might prepare for root canal, traffic accident, unemployment or illness, but how the household will meet, manage and even survive violent crime… — John Longenecker
Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October first, the third… — Babe Ruth
You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is the team for the cab driver who gets held up… — Jimmy Breslin
As soon as the mouth is opened, evils spring forth. People either neglect the root and speak of the branches, or neglect the reality of… — Huangbo Xiyun
Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really… — Lawrence Taylor
I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and… — Chen Shui-bian
In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy,… — Alan Watts
Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year.… — Marvin Harris
Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic. — Al Goldstein
Some people have read a few Marxist books and think themselves quite learned but what they have read has not penetrated, has not struck root… — Mao Zedong
...great feeling of enthusiasm..this human component began to fade away, leaving only that supernatural enthusisam which must always be at the root of our perseverance. — Salvador Bernal
Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last.… — John Henry Newman
Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving. — John Dewey
There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped… — George Gamow
Faith is a principle which hath its root deeper than feelings. We believe, whether we see or not. We believe, whether we feel or not. — Charles Spurgeon
We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom… — Mao Zedong
The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin. — Swami Vivekananda
I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other than going to… — Tony Kushner
It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered. — Confucius
A root is a flower that disdains fame. — Khalil Gibran

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