Top 55 Uprooted Quotes

#1. The sun that warmed our stooping backs and withered the weed
uprooted-
We shall not feel it again.
We shall die in darkness, and be buried in the rain.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Uprooted Quotes #41011
#2. Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.

George Amos Dorsey

Uprooted Quotes #70854
#3. apostles said to the Lord, "Show us how to increase our faith." 6The Lord answered, "If you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, 'May you be uprooted and thrown into the sea,' and it would obey you!

Anonymous

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#4. The beet must be uprooted.

Roland Freisler

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#5. The jurors appear vaguely stranded and at loose ends, uprooted from their routines and livelihoods.

Walter Kirn

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#6. The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth!

Juan Ramon Jimenez

Uprooted Quotes #144765
#7. Racism and sexism are intertwined [ ... ] and cannot be uprooted separately.

Gloria Steinem

Uprooted Quotes #166534
#8. Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on October 29th, 1949. With my brother Adolfas, we wanted to make a film about displaced persons, how one feels being uprooted from one's home.

Jonas Mekas

Uprooted Quotes #293483
#9. Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

Wallace Stegner

Uprooted Quotes #372202
#10. Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.

Simone Weil

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#11. When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Uprooted Quotes #488503
#12. I uprooted my life from Australia and came over to America with the idea of pursuing my acting career. I wasn't really sure where I would end up. I threw caution to the wind.

Penelope Mitchell

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#13. We just have to believe and excise our faith: The Lord answered, 'If you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to thi mulberry tree, 'May you be uprooted and thrown into the sea,' and it would obey you!(Luke 17:6, NLT).

Euginia Herlihy

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#14. Grace has uprooted us from a barren wilderness of sin and transplanted us by streams of living water.

Steven J. Lawson

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#15. Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.

Emile Durkheim

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#16. Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.

Iain McGilchrist

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#17. The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences.

Anais Nin

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#18. I'm being uprooted," Dino said. "You're being transplanted," Viv replied, "and to a better home.

Stuart Woods

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#19. The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

Gloria Steinem

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#20. Having left, for various reasons, the homeland of epic, they were uprooted like trees overthrown, they had lost their heroic character and deep-seated virtue.

Ismail Kadare

Uprooted Quotes #780083
#21. Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,' she said. 'Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone.

William Dalrymple

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#22. Because the Bolsheviks, who were so intent upon recasting the future from a mold of their own making, would not rest until every last vestige of his Russia had been uprooted, shattered, or erased. Returning

Amor Towles

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#23. The finance enchains with golden bonds states and peoples, the economy becomes nomadic, the life uprooted.

Alfred Rosenberg

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#24. The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions - but in many ways it left even deeper scars both on the mind and on the map of Europe. The old world never recovered from the shock.

Edmond Taylor

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#25. Carefully they replaced the soil and covered the entire grave with uprooted grass.
Neither one had spoken a word.

Toni Morrison

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#26. What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from their moorings; men were free when they were cast out of their homes - free to starve, free to perish of cold and hunger.

Radclyffe Hall

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#27. As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

Robert Graves

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#28. I don't believe I could live in Iran again. A tree, once uprooted from the earth, is very difficult to plant again.

Golshifteh Farahani

Uprooted Quotes #946071
#29. Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

D.H. Lawrence

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#30. Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.

Sathya Sai Baba

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#31. Your pride will be uprooted when a person who insults you appears to be your benefactor. The person who insults should be considered a benefactor, instead people get depressed when they are insulted.

Dada Bhagwan

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#32. An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.

Aesop

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#33. If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.

Gautama Buddha

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#34. For your love I have uprooted all my desires, I am no more demanding ...

Seema Gupta

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#35. We come from God. As the tree from the root and the stream from the spring; that's why we should always be in contact with Him, as the trunk from the root. Because the stream dries up when it is separated from the spring and the tree dies when is uprooted.

Pythagoras

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#36. I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.

Marquis De Sade

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#37. I uprooted my daughter and left my job and moved house for you, and you treat me like a hooker you don't have to pay.

J.K. Rowling

Uprooted Quotes #1221017
#38. And we feel that those characters couldn't be anywhere but where they are, that those characters couldn't say the things they say if they were uprooted and planted in, say, Minnesota or Scotland.

Thomas C. Foster

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#39. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.

Khaled Hosseini

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#40. You've been inexpressibly lucky," he said finally. "And inexpressibly mad, although in your case the two seem to be the same thing

Naomi Novik

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#41. The people of Israel have come home never to be uprooted again,

Benjamin Netanyahu

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#42. 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

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#43. Doubts never end. If one doubt is removed, another takes its place. It is like removing the leaves of a tree one by one. Even if all the leaves are clipped off, new ones grow. The tree itself must be uprooted.

Ramana Maharshi

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#44. Some trees are too deeply rooted to move ... And if they are uprooted, they will die ...

Jocelyn Murray

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#45. What is well planted will not be uprooted.

Laozi

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#46. I do think it's fascinating to see a play where everybody's sort of, in various ways, uprooted, and you see the older generation, the parents, whose faith has been something concrete that has guided them through a specific set of hurdles and circumstances.

Stephen Karam

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#47. Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Vladimir Lenin

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#48. I don't want more sense!" I said loudly, beating against the silence of the room. "Not if sense means I'll stop loving anyone. What is there besides people that's worth holding on to?

Naomi Novik

Uprooted Quotes #1584483
#49. Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

Robert Mugabe

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#50. Sobs force their way out of my throat. I feel like I'm trapped in a disaster movie where everything is shriveling into darkness and ash. Sunflowers are being uprooted. Puppies are being trampled. Whole cities are crumbling to dust.

Paula Stokes

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#51. But there was something more miserable still - it was the clutch of solitude at her heart, the sense of being swept like a stray uprooted growth down the heedless current of the years.

Edith Wharton

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#52. We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds.

Moshe Dayan

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#53. Every cuisine tells a story. Jewish food tells the story of an uprooted, migrating people and their vanished worlds. It lives in people's minds and has been kept alive because of what it evokes and represents.

Claudia Roden

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#54. The plant that's been uprooted has only courage to hold it up.

Marty Rubin

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#55. But evil does not die, just as history does not end. Like a weed, evil can be cut back but never entirely uprooted. It waits for its chance to spread through the cracks in our vigilance. It can take root in the fertile soil of our complacency, or even the rocky rubble of the fallen Berlin Wall.

Garry Kasparov

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