Rooted Quotes - Page 11

• I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Father, Believe

  Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.

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• The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.

  Steve Earle

  Dust, Singers, Matter

  "What Makes Steve Earle Run". www.wsj.com. April 11, 2013.

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• Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Book, Want, Film

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• Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Motherhood, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.159, A&C Black

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• Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.

  Phyllis George

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fun

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• I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

  Al Gore

  Understanding, Human Nature, Optimist

  "Al Gore, ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Author And Global-Warming Expert, Talks About Change". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2013.

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• Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.

  Barbara Jordan

  Views, People, Belief

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• I don't believe in revenge. When people are bullies it's because of a deeper-rooted issue - either their family life is tough or they're being bullied by someone bigger than they are.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Revenge, Believe, Issues

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• Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

  Joyce Meyer

  Overcoming, Littles, Problem

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• Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, Pain, Ocean

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 04, 2012

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• A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with us the reverse is true; our views change constantly; but our lunch does not change. Now, I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the garden, sometimes in bed, sometimes on the roof, sometimes in the top of a tree. Let them argue from the same first principles, but let them do it in a bed, or a boat, or a balloon.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Strong, Men, Garden

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• Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Fear, Children, Yesterday

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.

  Dean Koontz

  Joy, World, Mystery

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.317, Bantam

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• Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue, light mauve, and the darker ones, velvet and purple, black cat's ears in the sun, indigo shadow, and the bleeding hearts, so female in shape it was a surprise they'd not long since been rooted out. There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

  Margaret Atwood

  Beautiful, Cat, Heart

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

  Joe Hill

  Understanding, Suffering, Would Be

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• This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Stories, Walks, Folks

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• No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Choices, Mind

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• I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One leg of the compass is static. It is fixed and rooted in a certain spot. Meanwhile, the other leg draws a huge wide circle around the first one, constantly moving. Just like that, one part of my writing is based in Istanbul. It has strong local roots. Yet at the same time the other part travels the whole wide world, feeling connected to several cities, cultures, and peoples.

  Elif Safak

  Strong, Moving, Writing

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• Then suddenly the Mole felt a great Awe fall upon him, an awe that turned his muscles to water, bowed his head, and rooted his feet to the ground. It was no panic terror - indeed he felt wonderfully at peace and happy - but it was an awe that smote and held him and, without seeing, he knew it could only mean that some august presence was very, very near.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Fall, Mean, August

  Kenneth Grahame (2012). “The Wind in the Willows: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.71, Penguin

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• To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God's infinite love, to that degree can we let go of our need to judge.

  Henri Nouwen

  Letting Go, Judging, Identity

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• The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.

  George R. R. Martin

  Mother, Strong, Dark

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.3519, Bantam

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• My stand-up is far more rooted in reality than my Twitter.

  Rob Delaney

  Reality

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. June 1, 2012.

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• Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.

  Samuel Dash

  Mistake, Past, Government

  Samuel Dash (2004). “The Intruders: Unreasonable Searches and Seizures from King John to John Ashcroft”, p.152, Rutgers University Press

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• L I K E is like a bunch of dandelion seeds falling beautifully on the ground. It's a soft and good feeling but can come and go at any time
  L O V E is when those same dandelion seeds become firmly rooted sowing its seeds and growing another dandelion on the spot. It takes a lot of energy to grow the dandelion like protecting it from the wind and giving it water and sunlight but it becomes very precious and beautiful in the end

  Seohyun

  Beautiful, Fall, Wind

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• This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.

  Aeschylus

  Doe, Sickness, Tyranny

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus”

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