Rooted Quotes - Page 13

• It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

  Simone Weil

  Nature, Light, Sky

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• Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts to whole……. …skew or distorted spaces, created by sharp angles which exaggerate perspective…. …always keep a mental coordinate system no matter how free- form and baroque they become. The reference plane is always an implied frontality, and the route through the building or the curvilinear elements then relate to this conceptual cage

  Charles Jencks

  Space, Perspective, Elements

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• If the words of God are uttered merely as verbal expressions, and their message is not rooted in the virtuous way of life of those who utter them, they will not be heard. But if they are uttered through the practice of the commandments, their sound has such power that they dissolve the demons and dispose men eagerly to build their hearts into temples of God through making progress in works of righteousness.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Heart, Men

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• Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

  Moshe Safdie

  Future, Past, Looking Forward

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• Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Self, Preparation

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.23, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

  Saul Alinsky

  World, Fantasy, Judgment

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.26, Vintage

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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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• 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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• Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them a deep rooted firmness which enables them to lead a decent way of life.

  Klaus Fuchs

  People, Way, Kind

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• ... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community - one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity - that is rooted in two basic beliefs. First, we all have an inner teacher whose guidance is more reliable than anything we can get from a doctrine, ideology, collective belief system, institution, or leader. Second, we all need other people to invite, amplify, and help us discern the inner teacher's voice.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Integrity, Circles

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• The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.

  Erich Fromm

  Happiness, Capacity To Love, Growth

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• One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Army, Space

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Paved with Good Intentions: A Demon’s Road Map to Your Soul”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Food, Science, Important

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• The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations.

  Robert Motherwell

  Wine, Glasses, Blood

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• One by one the objects are defined? It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entrance?Still, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken.

  William Carlos Williams

  Profound, Down And, Dignity

  1923 Spring and All, 'Spring and All'.

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• Hope is the expectation of fulfillment that is anchored in God's promise to meet my need. Hope is not based on my emotional or mental determination. It is rooted in God. Quite simply, we are optimistic because we have placed our hope.

  Marilyn Meberg

  Hope, Encouragement, Determination

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• The best movies are rooted in reality.

  Seth Gordon

  Reality

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

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• Popular piety is one of our strengths because it consists of prayers deeply rooted in people's hearts. These prayers even move the hearts of people who are somewhat cut off from the life of the Church and who have no special understanding of faith. All that is required is to 'illuminate' these actions and 'purify' this tradition so that it may become part of the life of the Church today.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Prayer, Moving, Heart

  Pope Benedict XVI (2008). “Questions and Answers”, p.103, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.

  Michael Chekhov

  Artist, Desire, Bears

  Michael Chekhov, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ (1963). “To the director and playwright”

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• Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.

  Reince Priebus

  Doors, Political, Promise

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• Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.

  Vijay Mallya

  Opportunity, Indian

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• You are a cosmic happening rooted in a local event, NOT the other way around.

  Michael Beckwith

  Life, Events, Way

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• And here and now we must insist again that fidelity, honor, and love of country demand untrammeled debate and open dissent. At no time is that truer than in the midst of a war rooted in deceit and justified by continuing deception.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, War, Honor

  "John Kerry Gets His Voice Back" by James Boyce, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2006.

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• Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth

  John Ford

  Spring, Tree, Growth

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• All humor is rooted in pain.

  Richard Pryor

  Pain, Humour

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