Root Quotes

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Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws. — Charles Kingsley
The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of Manet,… — Marc Chagall
What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform. — Tony Blair
Every small problem most likely stems from the same root as large problems, and so there is no need to always go deep. One can… — Pema Chodron
As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place… — Eugene Delacroix
He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable. — Max Muller
Secretary of State Colin Powell himself eloquently pointed out the many ways to get at the root of this problem-economic, diplomatic, legal and political, as… — Barbara Lee
The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the last century a… — David Cameron
It is not a question so much of a 'tree like a figure' or a 'root like a figure' - it is a question of… — Graham Sutherland
The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think… — Robert Genn
Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance. — Lyndon B. Johnson
The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of women among them,… — Brigham Young
It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness… — Theodore Roosevelt
. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil. — Roy Wilkins
Bless us, divine number, who generated gods and men. Number contains the root and source of eternally flowing creation. — Pythagoras
If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even though… — Jawaharlal Nehru
It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem… — Sarah Orne Jewett
I believe that the imperative need of the day is not simply revival, but a radical reformation that will go to the root of our… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The english word thanks comes from the same root word as think. Maybe if leaders were more 'think-ful' about the contribution of others, they would… — John C. Maxwell
Words are the vibrations of nature. Therefore, beautiful words create beautiful nature. Ugly words create ugly nature. This is the root of the universe. — Masaru Emoto

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