Root Quotes

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To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion… — Brandon Sanderson
She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and… — Zora Neale Hurston
If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of… — Abigail Adams
Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience,… — Mark Z. Danielewski
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all. — Nikolai Gogol
(text message) CMDR ROOT. TRBLE BELOW. HAVN OVRRN BY GOBLINS. PLCE PLAZA SRROUNDED. CUDGEON + OPL KBOI BHND PLOT. NO WPONS OR CMMUNICATIONS. DNA CNONS… — Eoin Colfer
And I can imagine Farmer saying he doesn't care if no one else is willing to follow their example. He's still going to make these… — Tracy Kidder
And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree… — Virginia Woolf
The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for… — Bertrand Russell
To be radical is to grasp things by the root. — Karl Marx
The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a… — Muriel Spark
Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money… — George Burns
There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them. — Bono
The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars. — Octavia Butler
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance. — Pema Chodron
Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive… — Fred Rogers
the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that… — Orson Scott Card
We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in our… — Garth Stein
No ideology can help to create a new world or a new mind or a new human being -- because ideological orientation itself is the… — Rajneesh

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