Roots Quotes

1850 Roots quotes by 1361 unique authors

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this means… — Brian Swimme
Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives… — Gaston Bachelard
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around… — Henry Ward Beecher
You can't have the fruits without the roots. — Stephen Covey
Stressing the practice of living purposefully as essential to fully realized self-esteem is not equivalent to measuring an individual's worth by his or her external… — Nathaniel Branden
If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the… — Sean O'Casey
. . . since being a Jew not only means that I bear within me a catastrophe that occurred yesterday and cannot be ruled out… — Unknown Author
The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each… — Laozi
States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first… — Niccolo Machiavelli
I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values are offended by… — Howard Dean
The roots of great innovation are never just in the technology itself. They are always in the wider historical context. They require new ways of… — David Brooks
Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement. — James A. Champy
So we took out those 3 root canals when she had 3-6 months to live. And that was 6 years ago, and she is still… — Hal Huggins
You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind.… — Eckhart Tolle
We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament… — Jackson Browne
The word relationship is beautiful. The original meaning of the root from which the word to relate comes is exactly the same as to respond.… — Rajneesh
I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked… — Ricky Schroder
"The root of joy is gratefulness." — David Steindl-Rast
In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the root of our… — Constantin Stanislavski
I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go. — Elif Safak
We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution. — Roger Mahony
The revolt of the poet is invariably conservative at its roots. … Not politically conservative, but imaginatively conservative, with a profound regard for what is… — Unknown Author
Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer… — Arthur Hailey

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