Roots Quotes

1850 Roots quotes by 1361 unique authors

For historical currents do not irresistibly propel themselves and everyone in their path. No matter what their broader structural or ideological roots, they both carry… — Unknown Author
The roots of our ecological crises are axiomatic: they lie in our belief and value structures which shape our relationship with nature, with each other… — Unknown Author
Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric, giving… — Camilla Gibb
We absolutely must battle with every bit of determination we can muster to root out the harm that would warp the souls and spirits of… — Wess Stafford
It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution. — Le Corbusier
My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles,… — David Miliband
The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. — Kurt Vonnegut
Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden,… — Tayeb Salih
Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the… — Robin McKinley
The other guys, all they have to do is use their big butts and big python arms to hit homers. Me, I'm the little guy… — Ken Griffey, Jr.
We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or… — Chang-Rae Lee
The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while. — Edward Abbey
Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant… — Benjamin Franklin
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. — Daniel Defoe
This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on… — R.K. Narayan
No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell. — Carl Jung
The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to… — Carl Jung
We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken… — Arthur Miller
If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in… — Robert A. Heinlein
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

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