Uproot Quotes

#1. Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck away at it, and it will die. But leave it to thrive in the soil, untouched, and it will weather both gods and winds. It is born with the soil, and it will live so long as the soil shall live.

Etgar Keret

#2. It's with a heavy heart that I have decided that I can't relocate. I have two babies under 4. being a mother and wife comes first and I just can not uproot my children and separate the family by moving away. I will miss this job desperately and wish everyone the absolute best.

Alyssa Milano

#3. I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly.

Norman Lamm

#4. The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.

Ha Jin

#5. Man was exiled from the Garden for eating a single fruit, and now you propose to uproot the whole tree without the angels noticing.

G. Willow Wilson

#6. So it is not simply by understanding doctrine that we uproot narcissism and materialism. It is by actually taking our place in a local expression of that concrete economy of grace instituted by God in Christ and sustained by his Word and Spirit.

Michael S. Horton

#7. If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.

Teresa Of Avila

#8. At fifty-one, why would she choose to dispose of her house, uproot herself, and come here to be a part of your work if she didn't feel that, for the first time in her life, she was profoundly known for who she is, that she was at last cherished for who she truly is?

Dean Koontz

#9. It might sound naive to suggest that whether you order a chicken patty or a veggie burger is a profoundly important decision. Then again, it certainly would have sounded fantastic if in the 1950's you were told that where you sat in a restaurant or on a bus could begin to uproot racism.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#10. As men uproot weeds, we must root out all the flaws in our work.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.

Jo Brand

#12. She was after all the kind of woman who would make a man easily uproot his life, the kind who, because she did not expect or ask for certainty, made a certain kind of sureness become possible.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#13. I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.

Ted Kulongoski

#14. God gave us His spirit, for us to have the power and authority to uproot lawlessness and establish God's righteousness

Sunday Adelaja

#15. And we, too, had a relationship
Tight wires between us,
Pegs too deep to uproot, and a mind like a ring
Sliding shut on some quick thing,
The constriction killing me also.

Sylvia Plath

#16. If you've been here 15 years and you've got three kids and grandkids and you've been paying taxes and obeying the law, you belong to a local church, I don't think we're going to separate you from your family, uproot you forcefully and kick you out.

Newt Gingrich

#17. It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them.

Austin O'Malley

#18. No, It's hard to uproot yourself and really become yourself in another soil, but it's also an opportunity, another kind of growth.

Ha Jin

#19. If there is an art of living, it is not something that can be taught timelessly. We have lessons to learn from Aristotle et al, for sure, but not if we simply uproot them from their epoch and stamp them into 21st-century soil.

Julian Baggini

#20. Once you get used to being treated like you matter, it's hard to uproot and move somewhere where you don't.

Tim Sandlin

#21. We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#22. The thing that you refuse to uproot will ruin you. The thing that you refuse to fight against will kill you

Sunday Adelaja

#23. A strong pursuit, give no time for the enemy to think, take advantage of victory, uproot him, cut off his escape route.

Alexander Suvorov

#24. I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter; she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else.

Emma Thompson

#25. Uproot the spirit of reluctancy out of your life and invest the spirit of stickability in this year of 2014.

Euginia Herlihy

#26. Do not neglect to uproot from the hearts of children the tares of sins,

John Of Kronstadt

#27. If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.

Tullian Tchividjian

#28. When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.

Anais Nin

#29. In the short run, using militias might be the quickest and easiest way to improve order on Iraq's streets and uproot the terrorists and guerrillas who routinely attack American troops and civilian targets.

Alex Berenson

#30. [Josiah P. Mendum memorial at Paine Hall]
[He turned] the strait-laced Boston of sixty years ago [into] the enlightened Hub of today, ... to 'destroy bigotry and uproot the evils of superstition.

Josiah P. Mendum

#31. My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon In the pathway of the morrows. He'll live his days where the sunbeams start, Nor could storm or wind uproot him. My own dear love, he is all my heart,
And I wish somebody'd shoot him.

Dorothy Parker

#32. Once sure that the doctrine we teach is God's Word, once certain of this, we may build thereupon, and know that this cause shall and must remain; the devil shall not be able to overthrow it, much less the world be able to uproot it, how fiercely soever it rage.

Martin Luther

#33. Ours is a historical faith, and to uproot the Bible from its historical contexts is self-contradictory.

Peter Enns

#34. It had taken all Harry's willpower to uproot himself from the spot and run, leaving the eyeless dementors to glide amongst the Muggles who might not be able to see them, but would assuredly feel the despair they cast wherever they went.

J.K. Rowling

#35. For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.

Martin Buber

#36. I will rebuild and not demolish you, and I will plant and not uproot you. Jeremiah 42:10

Beth Moore

#37. I'm not ready to pack my bags and leave the town and my business that I love and my kids that I love more than anything and pack them up and come to Hollywood. I love California. I love Hollywood. But I'm not ready to uproot what I believe in to come to Hollywood.

Dwight Henry

#38. Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.

Simone Weil

#39. She knew suddenly that a woman could change her whole life and uproot her existence with one choice.

Kristin Hannah

#40. I do not know that the Chinese system is any worse; there is a limit to the evil one despot alone can do, and if he is truly vicious he can be overthrown; a hundred corrupt members of Parliament may together do as much injustice or more, and be the less easy to uproot.

Naomi Novik

#41. Anger is the lowest emotion. It clouds the intellect and can make you do foolish things. You become blind to reason and react only with your body, without thinking. This leads to failure in every sphere. Uproot this evil from your system.

Anand Neelakantan

#42. If a Palestinian bulldozer were ever invented (Haha, I know!) and I were given the chance to be in an orchard, in Haifa for instance,I would never uproot a tree an Israeli planted. No Palestinian would. To Palestinians, the tree is sacred, and so is the Land bearing it

Refaat Alareer

#43. In India, the sapling was planted by the nation's founders, who lived long enough (and worked hard enough) to nurture it to adulthood. Those who came afterwards could disturb and degrade the tree of democracy but, try as they might, could not uproot or destroy it.

Ramachandra Guha

#44. If we are established in a ministry it will be very difficult for the devil to uproot us

Sunday Adelaja

#45. It is the way that all girls who only know one boy move. Centered as if the love that boy feels for them anchors them deep as a tree's roots, holds them still as the oaks, which don't uproot in hurricane wind. Love as certainty.

Jesmyn Ward

#46. Why uproot
a perfectly healthy
white blazing star
from the soil
to allow room
for a roadside weed?

Stephanie Hemphill

#47. We are uneasy. And unease leads men and women to seek change, to innovate, to build on the best that they have and to uproot the worst.

Yuval Levin

#48. At some level we intend everything we do. That's why it's extremely important to root out our intentions before they uproot us.

Patricia Cornwell

#49. It is difficult to uproot fully grown plants; they become diseased and often perish. In Russia now they practise winter transplanting: a tree is dug up while it is in a dormant condition. In spring it comes back to life in a new place. A good method, especially as a tree has no memory.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#50. Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.

Yann Martel