Roots Quotes

1850 Roots quotes by 1361 unique authors

If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil,… — Alfred de Musset
All ministry that is faithful & eventually fruitful finds its roots in the life, death, & resurrection of Jesus Christ. — Matt Chandler
But the sower going forth to sow sets foot into time to come, the seeds falling on his own place. He has prepared a way… — Wendell Berry
I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music you can imagine… — Scotty Moore
There are few problems in the world that economic prosperitycannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierceattack. The forces that seek… — Ziad K. Abdelnour
Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade… — Alan Ryan
Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed in the undivided… — Parker J. Palmer
Many of our feelings of satisfaction or dissatisfaction have their roots in how we compare ourselves to others. When we compare ourselves to those who… — David Niven
The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase.… — Ramana Maharshi
It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it… — Paracelsus
An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social feelings that should… — Orson Pratt
Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement, desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others are often at… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs… — John Henry Newman
We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be… — Henry Ward Beecher
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who… — Henry David Thoreau
Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross, follow… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots. — Desmond Tutu
All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater. — Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but… — Robert Fulghum
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others. — Mencius
Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . .… — Thomas Carlyle
Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge of driftwood along the beach, wanting! They derive from a slow and powerful root that we can’t… — Unknown Author
Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root. — Loren Eiseley
Meditation is the only cure for all sicknesses that man is prone to; a single medicine. And I should remind you that the word meditation… — Rajneesh
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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