Root Quotes

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In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.' She is the… — Meinrad Craighead
What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It… — Tullian Tchividjian
Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a… — Archie Shepp
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they… — Charles Caleb Colton
Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually… — Donald Knuth
If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can come up with,… — Bob Torres
You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain… — Jason Gann
I always root for the defense. — Wellington Mara
At the root of fear is low self-esteem. This explains why angry people have low self-esteem, are argumentative, stubborn, and quick to flare up yet… — David J. Lieberman
Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Fascism is the most inherently evil political ideology that man has ever devised. Wherever we see even the smallest sapling of fascism growing, we should… — Derek R. Audette
However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem is always found… — Wendell Berry
I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips. — Julia Child
The Simonian system can be extracted from the writings of Hippolytus. The cosmos begins with the one root, which is unfathomable Silence, pre-existent, limitless power,… — Edward F Edinger
Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root. — Laozi
Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all… — Saint John Chrysostom
Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human… — Eric Hoffer
It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world. — Eric Hoffer
Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil. — William Penn
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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