Top 100 Roots Of Sayings
#1. Dig deep & pull the roots of confidence from the ground of your being, standing firm in the raging storm until sunlight blossoms inside you.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#2. The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the very roots of its belief in justice and humanity.
Katherine Anne Porter
#3. I promise I won't laugh at you if you sneak out to bury a few Pink Ladies at the roots of our trees this December. Assuredly, you'll be doing your part for next year's crop. And who knows? You might find some buried treasure - be it gold or simple gifts of the spirit. Happy holidays!
Elise Forier Edie
#4. ...the wires he wore had grown all through him, as the roots of trees replace the flesh of corpses; and the vast coils of the whale's brain wrapped around him like a gray constricting snake. I pitied him: but it was probably stray feedback from the Net...
Raphael Carter
#6. Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act.
Patrick Rothfuss
#7. I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena
Francisco Varela
#8. I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots of the various plant; where the sunshine pours steadily; where the brook runs babbling along, there is a beneficent power.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#9. The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions.
Lee L Jampolsky
#10. Therapy uncovered deep roots of these everyday problems - roots stretching down to the bedrock of existence. I
Irvin D. Yalom
#11. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John F. Kennedy
#12. The roots of apple were to build computers for people, not for corporations. The world doesn't need another dell or compaq.
Steve Jobs
#13. The roots of love sink down and deep and strike out far, and they are arteries that feed our lives, so we must see that they get the water and sun they need so they can nourish us. And when you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you.
Merle Shain
#14. My core competency has really informed my painting. The roots of editing stem from classical paintings - classic painters intended to drive your eye from this conflict to that intrigue, ending with a caprice. That is a montage, that is editing. It became a flipbook in later generations.
Billy Zane
#15. By "radical" I mean something more than that they aimed to change the order of society in a fundamental way or that they searched for the deepest roots of problems. The opposite of radical is not "moderate" or "conservative" but "common.
Matthew Stewart
#16. If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.
Henry Threadgill
#17. It is a cultural tradition that makes New Orleans what it is. It also represents the roots of American music and an important part of the African-American community in New Orleans. It unites people in some of the poorer neighborhoods of the city. It is absolutely critical to continue.
Bill Taylor
#18. If we return to the roots of planning we see at its heart a desire to understand human behaviour and provide a robust model for influencing it. Rather than dismantling strategy into endless experimentation, we need a new way of understanding the world, a modern philosophy.
Faris Yakob
#19. Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
Felix Adler
#20. The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their ideas and are willing to hear them.
John Baldoni
#21. As it turns out, the atrocities we suffered were committed by none other than ourselves, and the inner sense of guilt and fear sparked by this incident helped form the roots of the frantic hatred that thrives to this day. (2007: 9)
Hwang Sok-yong
#23. 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
#24. Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.
Salman Rushdie
#25. What I feel for her is a wholly different emotion. It stands and walks on its own, living and breathing and throbbing and shaking me to the roots of my being.
Haruki Murakami
#26. The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Dalai Lama
#27. Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
Paul Cezanne
#28. The roots of my music start from the ghetto.
Ziggy Marley
#29. I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.
Oral Roberts
#30. But fairest of all was the great white gem, which the dwarves had found beneath the roots of the Mountain, the Heart of the Mountain, the Arkenstone of Thrain.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#31. Too often in the post-9/11 world, when the time has come to translate the moral, and essentially progressive, roots of foreign policy idealism into plans for American action, liberals have said, 'Duck.
Richard Just
#32. We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.
Nhat Hanh
#33. The roots of envy always run deeper and wider than the relationship in which it surfaces. In
Andy Stanley
#34. Thinking goes on in your head. It is not really deep into the roots of your being; it is not your totality.
Osho
#35. The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind.
Shannon Hale
#36. I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.
Norman Mailer
#37. anytime you enjoy the sweet fruits of the tree, remember the dirty roots of the tree
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#38. My interest in the psychological roots of psychosis has both personal (my brother Andrew committed suicide) and professional origins (I was trained in a behaviorist approach to psychology which - whatever its limitations - at least taught me to see human behavior in its social context).
Richard Bentall
#39. Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.
Dogen
#40. In the oddity or maybe the miracle of life, the roots of something new frequently lie in the decaying husks of something old.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#41. I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It questions the established order of the mind. It is radical, by which I don't mean that it is either leftwing or rightwing, but that it works at the roots of thinking.
Alice Oswald
#42. The deepest roots of this modern shift are twofold: in epistemology, the romanticist advocacy of feeling as superior to reason; in ethics, the altruist advocacy of others as superior to self. The result is a view of morality in which the ruling standard is: the feelings of others.
Leonard Peikoff
#43. The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives
the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#45. Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
Orson Welles
#46. Plants die off when their roots have no water to sustain them. May your tears feed the roots of love in your heart and bring healing to your soul. May God grant you the strength to move on, knowing there's so much ahead of you.
Kemi Sogunle
#47. Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
Ansel Adams
#48. The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.
Anne O'Hare McCormick
#49. The word of God protects the soul, it deepens the roots of faith and it softens the hearts of His people.
Euginia Herlihy
#50. When the time comes and you need a weapon, look under the roots of the Menoa tree. Then, when all seems lost and your power is insufficient, go to the Rock of Kuthian and speak your name to open the Vault of Souls.
Christopher Paolini
#51. That night the first frost of autumn struck Tucker's Grove. It crept up from the ground, snaring the fragile roots of plants. It emerged from the air, etching its signature on window-panes. A portent. The year was nearing its end. Things would die soon.
Kevin J. Anderson
#53. 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
#54. The roots of the word "compete" are the Latin con petire, which meant "to seek together.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#55. Heaven has become for us the cosmic space of the physicists ... But 'the heart glows,' and a secret unrest gnaws at the roots of our being.
C. G. Jung
#56. Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid - necessarily goes to the roots of action? Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?
George Eliot
#57. Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love.
Mahatma Gandhi
#58. America wasn't interested in the roots of house music because it was too black, it was too gay, it was all these things, and today it's made very sanitized and white.
Felix Buxton
#59. My introduction of Whitney was that if there's going to be one performer for the next generation who combined the beauty and lyric phrasing of a Lena Horne with those Gospel fiery roots of an Aretha Franklin, it would be Whitney Houston.
Clive Davis
#60. What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
Henry Ward Beecher
#61. The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
Harold Taylor
#62. The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
Sargent Shriver
#63. The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.
Alan Moore
#64. If the weeds are pulled out of the garden too soon, the too shallow roots of the plants developing around it get pulled up with the weed also. Time is what is needed before criticism can be useful.
Allison Mackie
#65. These are roots of all evil, hatred and greed, for money, for the construction and for the sale of weapons. This should make us all think, who is behind it all?
Pope Francis
#66. I often refer to myself as a radical, reminding people that the word radical comes from the Latin word radix, meaning root. I think we need to get to the roots of problems as we try to solve them. I also like the word anti-capitalist.
Cynthia Kauffman
#67. The assurance that we have no means of answering [final] questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them. The more deeply should we feel, down to the roots of our being, their pressure and their sting. Whose hunger has ever been [sated] with the knowledge that he could not eat?
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#68. The rain has been incessant. It feeds my soul. I feel that it washes over my body, and a part of me drips into the soil with the rain, and a part of me becomes the soil and is drank into the roots of these trees and I have become one with them.
Garth Stein
#69. Wealth and greed are the roots of all evils
Ali R.A
#70. Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#71. I must be an emotional archaeologist because I keep looking for the roots of things, particularly the roots of behavior and why I feel certain ways about certain things.
Fred Rogers
#72. What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the next levels, including also the scientific knowledge.
Jean Piaget
#73. The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Denis Waitley
#74. Were trying to dig up the roots of that big oak stump near the
Carson McCullers
#75. Jeet Kune Do: it's just a name; don't fuss over it. There's no such thing as a style if you understand the roots of combat.
Bruce Lee
#76. ...that secret hostility natural between brothers, the roots of which --little nursery rivalries--sometimes toughen and deepen as life goes on, and, all hidden, support a plant capable of producing in season the bitterest fruits.
John Galsworthy
#77. The roots of a lasting relationship are mindfulness, deep listening and loving speech, and a strong community to support you.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#78. To hold the power of affection and maintain the roots of love, you must stay trusted.
Auliq Ice
#79. If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.
Bryant McGill
#80. Tonight
A friendly breeze
Will agitate roots of meanings.
Wonder will flap its wings.
Deep in the night, an insect
Will gnaw
At the green portion of solitude.
Morning will fall
Into the word of morning.
Sohrab Sepehri
#81. When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness
Nhat Hanh
#82. The roots of Theodism are hard to trace. Leave it to say, it has roots in both Wicca and Germanic Heathenry. Garman began his path towards Theodish Belief as a Wiccan, studying in the Gardnerian tradition.
Swain Wodening
#83. That's certainly the roots of heavy metal. That whole sense of revolution and wanting to be powerful is definetly a puberty thing. Fans don't have to be offended by that. Everybody goes through it. That's why heavy metal is so powerful.
Ian Christe
#84. The African specialist Nahid Toubia puts it plain [when speaking of female genital mutilation]: In a man it would range from amoutation of most of the penis, to removal of all the penis, its roots of soft tissue and part of the scrotal skin.
Eve Ensler
#85. writing between the roots of distance, she.
Gwen Calvo
#86. The roots of a tree stretch deeper than you think...No matter how far away you are when you bloom, you are always tied to your roots.
Lindsay Eagar
#87. Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.
Cindy Sheehan
#88. If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.
Angelique Kidjo
#90. Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.
Satish Kumar
#91. People like Nicholas are always gonna be around, roots of disaster. But if we fail to rescue them (Zach and Chanel), that is when they actually win.
Hamsa Priya Selvam
#92. Enmeshed in collective hatred and anger, each side proclaims the crimes of the other and its own righteousness, is unable to listen to the others suffering, and cannot look at the deeper roots of the conflict and how we often need our enemies in order to maintain our rigid identities. (p. 53)
Donald Rothberg
#93. Your value lies not in status or title, but in the roots of your character and depth of your compassion.
Mollie Marti
#95. If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture - that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.
Edward Abbey
#96. I knew he wouldn't die, because his life was like the roots of a tree that went miles into the soil and miles around its trunk and came up in my cousins, in their faces and their voices and their character. I didn't think you could kill a tree that big. Not even God could kill a tree that big.
Donald Miller
#98. No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error.
Stuart Sherman
#99. 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
#100. Keep in mind the roots of violence: Lust, envy, anger, avarice, and vengeance ... the taproot ... the killer's ultimate and truest motivation ... is the hatred of truth ... the hatred of truth is a vice. From it comes pride and an enthusiasm for disorder.
Dean Koontz
