Root Quotes

1111 quotes by 854 authors

Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God who made us… — Madeleine L'Engle
I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love. — Joy Harjo
People who have been wronged will attempt to right the wrong; they would not be people if they didn't. They can rarely afford to be… — James A. Baldwin
I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself… — James Wolcott
It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that… — Richard Sibbes
To kill the grass you must also remove the root — Pol Pot
A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has… — D. W Brogan
Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root. — William Shakespeare
It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they use Jesus as… — Rich Mullins
Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To… — Ayn Rand
The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God — J I Packer
I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption… — Benigno Aquino III
The struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The real crisis we… — Ronald Reagan
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil… — Max Born
Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause. — Rick Warren
At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over.… — David Foster Wallace
My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the earth and thou… — Khalil Gibran
We talk of regional conflicts, of economic and social crises, of political instability, of abuses of human rights, of racism, religious intolerance, inequalities between rich… — Poul Hartling
Ideas are the root of creation. — Ernest Dimnet
Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex. — Havelock Ellis

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