Roots Quotes - Page 13

• No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wealth, Force, Ability

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• Know why people run marathons? …Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles, Starry Night, intravascular surgery; they all had their roots in our ability to run. Running was the superpower that made us human — which means its a superpower all humans posses.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Art, Mean

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.239, Profile Books

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• Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots

  Tupac Shakur

  Berries, Juice, Flesh

  Song: Keep Ya Head Up, 1993

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• The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind.

  Shannon Hale

  Girl, Lying, Hair

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Forest Born”, p.147, A&C Black

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• The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.

  Emmet Fox

  Faith, Difficulty, Presence Of God

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• ..and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and man’s only recourse thereafter was to water and tend it; that propagation was a fiction; consequently, society was a fiction too; that fathers and teachers, by virtue of being fathers and teachers, were guilty of a grievous sin.

  Yukio Mishima

  Teacher, Father, Simple

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• Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

  Confucius

  Learning, Knowledge, Branches

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• Within its gates I heard the sound Of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought To whisper what their roots had found. (“A Dream of Fear”)

  George Sterling

  Dream, Wind, Sound

  George Sterling (1908). “A Wine of Wizardry: And Other Poems”

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• dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.

  John Green

  Dating, Would Be, Unnecessary

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.85, Penguin

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• Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Reflection, Giving, Mind

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2010). “Essays of Schopenhauer”, p.77, The Floating Press

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• When day begins to break I count my blessings, good and bad, Being wakeful for your sake, Remembering the covenant we've always had, What eagle look your face still shows, While up from my heart's root So great a sweetness flows I shake from head to foot.

  P. C. Cast

  Heart, Blessing, Eagles

  P.C. Cast (2016). “Divine By Mistake”, p.171, Harlequin

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• here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

  e. e. cummings

  I Love You, Spiritual, Stars

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.45, C.H.Beck

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• People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water.

  James A. Baldwin

  Creating, Water, People

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• For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracting superlatives, figuring the square root of an absolute and then multiplying by maybe.

  Tim O'Brien

  Thinking, Squares, Finding Yourself

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Intellectual, Odor, Rotting

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.70, LSU Press

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• The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.

  George Orwell

  Long, Evil, Tree

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We can hear others, and we can travel with them without moving, and we can imagine them, and we are all connected one to the other by a crazy root system, like so many leaves of grass. But the game makes me wonder wheter we can really ever fully become another.

  John Green

  Crazy, Moving, Games

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.258, A&C Black

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• The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice, the tiger and the bear. The hand that hefted the ax, out of some old blind allegiance to the past fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep.

  Loren Eiseley

  Gun, Past, Men

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• A weapon based on Time . . ." mused Viktor Mulciber. "Well, why not? The one force no one knows how to defeat, resist, or reverse. It kills all forms of life sooner or later. With a Time-weapon you could become the most feared person in history." "I'd rather be loved," said Root. Mulciber shrugged. "You're young.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Why Not, Weapons, Defeat

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.658, Penguin

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• I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more than sympathetic contempt. I view my species with a combination of wonder and pity, and I root for its destruction. And please don't confuse my point of view with cynicism; the real cynics are the ones who tell you everything's gonna be all right.

  George Carlin

  Real, Views, May

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.11, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have a sound historical or rational basis, but because they are found in practice to give the faithful a sense of sacred transcendence.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religious, Practice, Ideas

  Karen Armstrong (2002). “Islam: A Short History”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms. It is always night. Candles burn in lanterns made from tin cans. When it is nighttime up above, you can crawl out, but only for a little while. You feel ashamed of your matted hair, your torn clothes, the dirt on your face. Who would want to speak to you? They are all shiny and pretty. They have parents and house with gardens. What do you have? The earth. Whole handfuls of it. The lizard people with their slit eyes and scaly skin. Your loneliness. Your longing.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Loneliness, Eye, Night

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• But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

  John Green

  Mean, Long, Suffering

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

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• she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock

  Sherman Alexie

  Hair, Hands, Stories

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• Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.

  John Green

  Real, Feel Good, Leaving

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.234, A&C Black

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