Roots Quotes - Page 12

• I always root for the monster.

  J.R. Ward

  Monsters, Godzilla

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.269, Penguin

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• In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers.

  Pam Brown

  Friendship, War, Distance

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• I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English ‘education’ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school — I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Latin, School

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1986). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: The road to Wigan Pier”

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• Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.

  George Orwell

  Real, Men, Forever

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I first started studying Greek, one of my absolute favorite parts was realizing that so many English words had these old, secret roots. Learning Greek was like being given a super-power: linguistic x-ray vision.

  Madeline Miller

  Greek, Vision, Secret

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• He smiles sadly. "Now I know my destiny." "What is it?" "This." He draws me in to him in a kiss. His lips are warm. He pulls me tighter in his embrace. The roots sigh and release their hold on my waist and the wound in my side is healed. "Kartik," I cry, kissing his cheeks. "It's let me go." "That's good," he says. He makes a small cry. His back arches, and every muscle in his body tightens.

  Libba Bray

  Kissing, Destiny, Arches

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.498, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn't know where this stuff was coming from - all of a sudden I was a little magickal sprite, bonding with my stone, feeling my earth roots, la la la... All I can is describe the way it felt. And that was how it felt. So sue me. Was I swaying? I felt like I might be swaying.

  Cate Tiernan

  Feelings, Earth, Stones

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• You have seen that the universe is at root a magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there is no separate "you" to get something out of it, as if life were a bank to be robbed. The only real "you" is the one that comes and goes, manifests and withdraws itself eternally in and as every conscious being. For "you" is the universe looking at itself from billions of points of view, points that come and go so that the vision is forever new.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Real

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• Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.

  John Green

  Long, Alive, Towns

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.301, A&C Black

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• That’s what I thought. When I looked that human in the face. I figured he was either a genius or crazy.” Artemis’s cool eyes glared at them from the screen. “So which is it?” asked Foaly. “A genius or crazy?” Root grabbed his tri-barreled blaster from the gun rack. “What’s the difference?

  Eoin Colfer

  Crazy, Eye, Gun

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• in the air, there your root remains, there, in the air

  Paul Celan

  Air, Remains

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• Seeds of discouragement cannot take root in a grateful heart.

  Joel Osteen

  Grateful, Heart, Discouragement

  Twitter post from Jun 10, 2015

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• If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to overreact, to swing from exuberance when things are going well to deep depression when they go wrong. Booms and busts are products, at root, of our emotional volatility.

  Niall Ferguson

  Emotional, Swings, Amplify

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• Don’t interrupt,’ one of the boys said. ‘He’ll lose his life.’ Seeing it was a matter of life and death, Sophie and Michael backed toward the door. But Howl, quite unperturbed at killing his nephew, strode over to the wall and pulled the boxes up by the roots.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Wall, Boys, Doors

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• loneliness has its roots in words,in internal conversation that nodbody answers,solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.

  Miley Cyrus

  Loneliness, Silence, Solitude

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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 plants and whether they're getting enough water and if their roots are deep enough. Soil under the fingernails, grapes being trampled under bare feet, fingers sticky from handling fresh fruit. It's that green stripe you get around the sole of your shoes when you mow the lawn. Life in the age to come. Earthy.

  Rob Bell

  Shoes, Feet, Water

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• 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.

  Nhat Hanh

  War, Our Society, Way

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.86, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

  Richard Dawkins

  Evil, One Thing

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Love, as the poet says, is like the spring. It grows on you and seduces you slowly and gently, but it holds tight like the roots of a tree. You don't know until you're ready to go that you can't move, that you would have to mutilate yourself in order to be free. That's the feeling. It doesn't last, at least it doesn't have to. But it holds on like a steel claw in your chest. Even if the tree dies, the roots cling to you. I've seen men and women give up everything for love that once was.

  Walter Mosley

  Giving Up, Spring, Moving

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• You were the leaves, basking in the sunlight. I was the root, growing in the darkness ~Danzo

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Darkness, Growing, Sunlight

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• My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind.

  Marie Lu

  Mother, Humble, Thinking

  Beth Revis, Jessica Spotswood, Marie Lu, Ally Condie, Andrea Cremer (2012). “Breathless Reads Sampler”, p.78, Penguin

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• Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

  Rumi

  Healing, I Hate You, Branches

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• A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Government, Long

  "The Mind of Napoleon". Book by J. Christopher Herold, 1955.

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• Our mania for rational explanations obviously has its roots in our fear of metaphysics, for the two were always hostile brothers. Hence, anything unexpected that approaches us from the dark realm is regarded either as coming from outside and, therefore, as real, or else as a hallucination and, therefore, not true. The idea that anything could be real or true which does not come from outside has hardly begun to dawn on contemporary man.

  Carl Jung

  Brother, Real, Dark

  Carl Gustav Jung (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• 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

  Heart, Hatred, Tree

  Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.47, Penguin

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