Root Quotes

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Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult… — Liu Xiaobo
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in… — James A. Baldwin
What happens: events interiors, snatch them from the cradle, from the source. I want to watch watching arrive. I want to watch arrivances. I want… — Helene Cixous
Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no… — Soren Kierkegaard
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it… — John F. Kennedy
Storms make oaks take deeper root. — George Herbert
At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept… — Jodi Picoult
When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age,… — Mark Rothko
Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the… — Ayn Rand
For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me â€” as a girl and later as a woman… — Lisa See
Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root. — Tanith Lee
He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard. — Louisa May Alcott
The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have… — Aldous Huxley
I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the… — Pablo Neruda
Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If indeed it's a race Then the chicks do the most It isn't a brag Or an estrogen boast It's the women who've led me… — Jamie Lee Curtis
Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ. — Joyce Meyer
In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it came from some root that… — Mitch Albom
A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my… — Haruki Murakami
So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a… — Ayn Rand

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