Roots Quotes

1850 Roots quotes by 1361 unique authors

There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor. — Walter Hilton
Do not get angry because others question what you believe, be calm and loving, for anger is the root of a faulty belief. — Leon Brown
Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men. — Thomas a Kempis
We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of… — Alan Watts
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality. — Bell Hooks
To be fearless no matter what happens-that is the root of true happiness. To move forward resolutely regardless of what lies in store-that is the… — Daisaku Ikeda
Following an anti-inflammato ry diet can help counteract the chronic inflammation that is a root cause of many serious diseases, including those that become more… — Andrew Weil
I know for me, going back the person I've bad-mouthed or lied to is absolutely humiliating! But isn't it interesting that "humiliating" has the same… — Chip Ingram
At the root of everything that we’re trying to accomplish is the belief that America has a mission. We are a nation of freedom, living… — Ronald Reagan
Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the folly of obsession… — Tobias Wolff
It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that… — Bram Stoker
A root, a stem, a leaf, some means of capturing sunlight and air and making food - in sum, a plant. The green substance of… — Hal Borland
Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots. — Henry David Thoreau
I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated… — Kingsley Amis
We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss the… — George S. Patton
The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the… — Bill Toomey
Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the… — Amy Carmichael
If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do. — Mark Batterson
A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and… — Eric Hoffer
What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds… — Bruce Lee
Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England,… — Nelson Mandela
A non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet. — Casey Kasem
I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are quite lost in… — Graham Hancock
When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people. — Jennifer Hudson

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