Roots Quotes

1850 Roots quotes by 1361 unique authors

You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is the team for the cab driver who gets held up… — Jimmy Breslin
Surely a large part of the zealous repression of radical protest in America has its roots in the fact that millions of men who are… — John Schaar
Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention. — Alan Parsons
To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy… — Clare Short
While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
As soon as the mouth is opened, evils spring forth. People either neglect the root and speak of the branches, or neglect the reality of… — Huangbo Xiyun
Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and "ideas," and to plant their roots firmly in the earth. — William Vogt
Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really… — Lawrence Taylor
I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and… — Chen Shui-bian
In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy,… — Alan Watts
Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year.… — Marvin Harris
Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic. — Al Goldstein
Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a… — Nicholas Culpeper
Some people have read a few Marxist books and think themselves quite learned but what they have read has not penetrated, has not struck root… — Mao Zedong
...great feeling of enthusiasm..this human component began to fade away, leaving only that supernatural enthusisam which must always be at the root of our perseverance. — Salvador Bernal
Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last.… — John Henry Newman
The roots of our grief coil so deeply into loss that death has cometo live with us like a family member who makes you happy… — Susan Abulhawa
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth… — Ambrose Bierce
Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving. — John Dewey
There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped… — George Gamow
Faith is a principle which hath its root deeper than feelings. We believe, whether we see or not. We believe, whether we feel or not. — Charles Spurgeon
We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom… — Mao Zedong
The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin. — Swami Vivekananda
I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other than going to… — Tony Kushner

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