Their Roots Quotes
57 quotes by 55 authors
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It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their…
— Isak Dinesen
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You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these…
— Barry Lopez
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Basically there are two types of animals: animals, and animals that have no brains; they are called plants. They don't need a nervous system because…
— Rodolfo Llinas
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I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going to cut off…
— Jacqueline Cochran
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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
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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
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Depending on their psychic make up, for some people, closing the eyes or being quiet produces anxiety and increases mental agitation. In such situations it…
— Ravi Ravindra
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Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots?
— Pablo Neruda
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All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And…
— William Macneile Dixon
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Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their…
— Christian Lous Lange
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It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two…
— Werner Heisenberg
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Until society can be reclaimed by an undivided humanity that will use its collective wisdom, cultural achievements, technological innovations, scientific knowledge, and innate creativity for…
— Murray Bookchin
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It is necessary not only to relieve the gravest needs but to go to their roots, proposing measures that will give social, political and economic…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I came into the world charged with the duty to uphold the right in every place, to destroy sin and evil... the only reason I…
— Guru Gobind Singh
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Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground.
— William James
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Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with…
— William James
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In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions. Equality,…
— Calvin Coolidge
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To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can…
— May Sarton
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I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as a…
— Ronald Reagan
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