Top 84 Grow Roots Quotes
#1. I want to grow roots and vines from my body and ensnare him forever in my branches. No wonder we scare men away.
Wendy Wunder
#2. An argument must have opposition if it is to prove itself, my son," she said. "One who argues truly learns the depth of his commitment through adversity. Did you not learn that trees grow roots most strongly when winds blow through them?
Robert Jordan
#3. It a heasy t'ing to live for de lightnin' crack hillumination of possession.
It heasy to hide in de dark o' faith, pretendin' dat anyt'in' dat skitter an' scuttle in de night is jus' bad himagination.
It a heasy t'in' jus' to stay where you at. Grow roots. Vegetate. Be a potato.
Dave McKean
#4. Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.
Plato
#5. A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.
Dalai Lama
#6. The wind drops us where it will and there we have the choice to either fight our fate or grow roots and bloom.
Jayne Castel
#7. Let them shoot us in the head,
My blood will grow roots
and will blossom.
Visar Zhiti
#8. Life outside is changing our world. We are losing our culture, loosing our roots. How can a living thing grow if its roots are cut?
Sherry Shahan
#9. Farmers base their livelihoods on raising crops. But farmers do not make plants grow. They don't attach the roots, glue on the petals, or color the fruit. The plant grows itself. Farmers and gardeners provide the conditions for growth. Good farmers know what those conditions are, and bad ones don't.
Ken Robinson
#10. The stronghold of the contemplation of Christ's glory affords the soul rest, for it will be made evident that our troubles grow on the root of an over-valuation of temporal things. The mind is its own greatest troubler.
John Owen
#11. If we are the trees, words are our roots; and we grow as we write
Munia Khan
#12. Image: An Oak Tree. The oak that resists the wind loses its branches one by one, and with nothing left to protect it, the trunk fi nally snaps. The oak that bends lives long er, its trunk grow ing wider, its roots deeper and more tenacious.
Robert Greene
#14. But when I lean over the chasm of myself -
it seems
my God is dark
and like a web: a hundred roots
silently drinking.
This is the ferment I grow out of.
More I don't know, because my branches
rest in deep silence, stirred only by the wind.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#15. Her fingers were gnarled and crooked like the roots of the oldest swamp trees. Not prissy roots of trees that grew in manicured parks and didn't understand the mess of life. These were roots forced to grow around, and down, and through, to survive.
Amber Kizer
#16. Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#17. If lilies would grow
backwards,
if roses would grow
backwards,
if all those roots
could see the stars
& the dead not close
their eyes,
we would become like swans.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#19. Once you decide to grow out the roses from your heart, and let it spread the roots all over. you should also start to learn to handle the thorns that grow out of their stem.
Akshay Vasu
#21. You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.
Henning Mankell
#22. The higher a tree wants to rise, the lower its roots must grow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#23. When we reject our origins, we become the product of whatever soil that we find ourselves planted; the colors of our leaves change as we consume borrowed nutrients with borrowed roots and, like a tree, we grow.
Mike Norton
#24. Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.
Horace Mann
#25. If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do.
Mark Batterson
#26. For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green over a heart in ruins.
Victor Hugo
#27. The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
Akira Kurosawa
#28. Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition ... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.
Peter Drucker
#29. The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps.
Paula Hawkins
#30. The
struggle to grow makes the vine work harder, extending its
roots and absorbing elements that make it produce a
more interesting fruit.
Christie Ridgway
#31. What kind of trees are those?" I asked.
"Heartwood," my father said. "They grow in layers, like the spirit does. That's what Grandpa Sam used to say, anyway. You just got to keep the roots in a clear stream and not let nobody taint the water for you.
James Lee Burke
#32. Can love grow infinitely? each day I feel my love for him push its roots into my soul. I rest in his arms, so close that I can feel his heartbeat as though it were my own,and I wonder that just four short months ago I did not even know him.
Ahdaf Soueif
#33. 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 stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.
Amy Carmichael
#34. States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them
Niccolo Machiavelli
#35. More hearts are breaking in this world of ours Than one would say. In distant villages And solitudes remote, where winds have wafted The barbed seeds of love, or birds of passage Scattered them in their flight, do they take root, And grow in silence, and in silence perish.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#36. Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and music is like the fertilizer for that.
Burning Spear
#37. No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency.
Rachel Field
#38. Aim high fly
Reach deep roots
Stretch out grow
Beyond and below
Above and behind
All about and in
The awesomeness
Sings
Janey Colbourne
#39. Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.
Charles Kingsley
#40. Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again
Gautama Buddha
#41. I wanted my children to grow up where I grew up, to have proper roots in a culture as old and magnificent as Britain's; to be citizens, with everything that implies, of a real country ...
J.K. Rowling
#42. Many of us refuse to grow where we are put;
consequently, we take root nowhere.
Oswald Chambers
#43. We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.
Louis De Bernieres
#44. I planted a seed of hatred in my heart. I swore it would grow to be a massive tree whose roots would strangle them all.
Ruta Sepetys
#45. Let's not grow with our roots in the ground.
Criss Jami
#46. When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.
C. G. Jung
#48. No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.
C. G. Jung
#49. Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly
Wallace Stegner
#50. Being frightened is a part of the human experience. It lies beneath every impulse to grow spiritually - to find the roots of fear and pull them.
Gary Zukav
#51. Like the great white pines whose roots grow shallow under the forest floor, they are the first to fall in a storm; so is society whose family values are built on a shallow foundation, are the first to crumble at the first sign of trouble.
Jean Charest
#52. I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.
Jaime Ray Newman
#53. Focus on faith and grow your roots strong and deep so no one can make you believe in something that is not good for your soul.
Molly Friedenfeld
#54. Two seeds destined to grow in concert, planted together in the field of love.'" She took in a lungful of air and continued. "'The sky cast wet buckets of dreams and desires, the roots took shape, and the leaves tangled as one.
Christina Lee
#55. Eventually it will require more nutrients to maintain the branches and roots that do not grow quite far out enough to capture those nutrients. Once it exceeds the limitations of its environment, it loses all. And this is why you must trim a tree periodically in order to preserve it.
Hope Jahren
#56. Grow deep roots to harvest rich fruit! When your roots run deep, you cannot help but bear the fruit of the Spirit.
Michael Beckwith
#57. We can't run away from what defines our fates. Who we are and what we believe in grow from the roots of our past, no matter how much we might try to deny it.
Gail Tsukiyama
#58. All people need a place where their roots can grow deep and they always feel like they belong and have a loving refuge. And all people need a place that gives wings to their dreams, nurturing possibilities of who they might become.
Sally Clarkson
#59. Let us grow strong roots
Watering and nurturing
Each other daily.
Sanjo Jendayi
#60. My roots are ready, but I'll manage to grow only with the help of
others. Not just you or J. or my wife but people I've never met
Paulo Coelho
#61. Each of us encounters many diverse experiences that make us grow and transform, but we seek to return to our roots, which is quietude.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#62. That we are bound to the earth does not mean that we cannot grow; on the contrary it is the sine qua non of growth. No noble, well-grown tree ever disowned its dark roots, for it grows not only upward but downward as well.
C. G. Jung
#63. I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.
Deborah Norville
Deborah Norville
#64. Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#65. When all the time it was that grand tree, taking up half the garden with its roots and not allowing anything else to grow.
Zadie Smith
#66. Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.
Samuel Rutherford
#67. Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.
Billy Corgan
#68. It's no doubt that there's a connection (between the blues and hip-hop). Hip-hop is definitely a child of the blues. And I think you gotta know the roots to really grow. It's like knowing your parents, it's like knowing your culture, so you could be proud of that culture and take it to the world.
Common
#69. And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood.
Emma Donoghue
#70. Einstein is notmerely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great soldier grow orchids. He retains the same attitude in the whole of his work. He traces science to its roots in emotion, which is exactly where art is also rooted.
Havelock Ellis
#71. My history has been to grow the roots as deeply as you can before going on to the next thing. That's why it took 10 years to go from Union Square Cafe to Gramercy Tavern, and another 10 years to go from Blue Smoke's first location to its second, and five to go from Shake Shack 1 to Shake Shack 2.
Danny Meyer
#72. We never leave our roots. We just grow new branches.
Audrey Meadows
#73. Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow.
Mark Rothko
#75. God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, andthe tares frequently get the start of the wheat and kill it out. The only difference between the wheat and human beings is that the latter have intellect and ought to combine and pull out the tares, root and branch.
Susan B. Anthony
#76. 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 feels at home in the world.
Eric Hoffer
#77. Two sturdy oaks I mean, which side by side, Withstand the winter's storm, And spite of wind and tide, Grow up the meadow's pride, For both are strong Above they barely touch, but undermined Down to their deepest source, Admiring you shall find Their roots are intertwined Insep'rably.
Henry David Thoreau
#78. Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.
Saint Augustine
#79. Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.
Colum McCann
#80. Communication is the root of marital success from which a strong union can grow, and noncommunicatio n is the rock on which the ship will bash out her keel.
L. Ron Hubbard
#81. Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps
Paula Hawkins
#82. When your roots grow out and things go south, go back to the salon
Miranda Lambert
#83. But plants grow again," She murmured, focusing on the verdant beauty around her. "They put down new roots, create room for themselves in foreign soil.
Nalini Singh
#84. Then thre is Brian. It's been a slow-grow love with its roots in our friendship. We disagree about everything that's not important, like politics and religion, but agree on everything that is important, like where the dustpan and brush should live, and his sons' girlfriends.
Kate Kerrigan
