Roots Quotes

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If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first… — T. Harv Eker
In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it's what's under the ground that creates what's above the ground. That's why placing… — T. Harv Eker
You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive… — Khalil Gibran
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both… — Stephen Covey
... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by… — Hans Zinsser
If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities… — Charles Lindbergh
History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what… — Thomas Carlyle
The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind… — Francis Bacon
The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them. — Joseph Henry
Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims… — John Owen
Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness. The storm loosens the earth… — John Owen
It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors — Charles Caleb Colton
This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was… — Jonathan Swift
Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of can we presume… — Cynthia Heimel
When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out… — Abraham Lincoln
You may have decided again and again, and again and again you have failed - not because smoking is such a great phenomenon that you… — Rajneesh
It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Selfishness and fear are at the root of (pro-abortion) legislation...We in the Church have a great struggle to defend life...life is a gift not a… — Pope Benedict XVI
I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder...We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it. — Susan B. Anthony
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up. — George Eliot

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