Best Their Roots Quotes
57 Their Roots quotes by 55 unique authors
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Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should…
— Blaise Pascal
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A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and…
— Maynard James Keenan
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I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like…
— Camille Paglia
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Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
— Theodore Roethke
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Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
— Harry S. Truman
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Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique…
— Haruki Murakami
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Know why people run marathons? …Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles,…
— Christopher McDougall
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Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one…
— Confucius
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Within its gates I heard the sound Of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought To whisper what their roots…
— George Sterling
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... women have their roots in the ground, and often those roots are starved and ravaged, yet there is not a human alive who cannot…
— Og Mandino
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Tell me, is the rose naked or is that her only dress? Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots? Who hears the regrets…
— Pablo Neruda
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Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows…
— Vera Nazarian
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You told me once of the plants that lie dormant through the drought, that wait, half-dead, deep in the earth. The plants that wait for…
— Lucy Christopher
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dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the seas catch fire…
— E E Cummings
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The trees bathed their great heads in the waves of the morning, while their roots were planted deep in gloom; save where on the borders…
— George MacDonald
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A forest," William said, his expression distant. "Where the ground is dry soil and stone. Where tall trees grow and centuries of autumn carpet their…
— Ilona Andrews
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When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the…
— Rob Bell
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Many of the crises we see in the 21st century, I would argue, have their roots in the dawn of the Neolithic.
— Spencer Wells
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Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and…
— Margaret Atwood
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The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need…
— Colm Toibin
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All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live somewhere else. You…
— Deborah Moggach
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What Republicans need to do is to go back to their roots - starting with Lincoln - and remind the nation that they are the…
— Alan Siegel
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It is very disappointing to see the Punjabi music scene of today. The lyrical quality has deteriorated; it is only people like Sartaaj and Gurdas…
— Harbhajan Singh
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In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect…
— Charles Lyell
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