Roots Quotes - Page 16

• The stone is strong. Bran told himself, the roots of the trees go deep, and under the ground the Kings of Winter sit their thrones. So long as those remained, Winterfell remained. It was not dead, just broken. Like me, he thought. I'm not dead either.

  George R. R. Martin

  Strong, Kings, Winter

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1530, Bantam

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• The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are twenty thousand men, women and children in the bagnios of Algiers alone. I am not going to make it twenty thousand and one because your mother didn't allow you to keep rabbits, or whatever is at the root of your unshakable fixation." "I had weasels instead," said Philippa shortly. "Good God," said Lymond, looking at her. "That explains a lot.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Christian, Mother, Children

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• A lesser moustache, under the impact of that quick, agonised expulsion of breath, would have worked loose at the roots.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Impact, Moustache, Expulsion

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• You told me once of the plants that lie dormant through the drought, that wait, half-dead, deep in the earth. The plants that wait for the rain. You said they'd wait for years, if they had to; that they'd almost kill themselves before they grew again. But as soon as those first drops of water fall, those plants begin to stretch and spread their roots. They travel up through the soil and sand to reach the surface. There's a chance for them again.

  Lucy Christopher

  Lying, Rain, Fall

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.255, Scholastic Inc.

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• The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Principles, Causes, Action

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• Confession is the act of inviting God to walk the acreage of our hearts. “There is a rock of greed over here, Father. I can’t budge it. And that tree of guilt near the fence? Its roots are long and deep. And may I show you some dry soil, too crusty for seed?” God’s seed grows better if the soil of the heart is cleared.

  Max Lucado

  Father, Heart, Rocks

  Max Lucado (2011). “In the Grip of Grace -: Your Father Always Caught You. He Still Does.”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.

  Suzanne Collins

  Wisdom, Memories, Events

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• At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel we can be honest about. We lie to ourselves or other people because the truth might require action on our part, and action requires courage. We say we “don’t know” what is wrong, when we do know what is wrong; we just wish we didn’t. Art lets us tell the truth, but even art can be something to hide behind.

  Deb Caletti

  Art, Lying, Struggle

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• I believe I've put forth a tiny soul-root into Kingsport soil this afternoon. I hope so. I hate to feel transplanted.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Hate, Believe, Soul

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.545, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Tangled, Dying, Together

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3759, Delphi Classics

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• but then she did. she died. no more visits, no more phone calls. And without even realizing it, I began to drift, as if my roots had been pulled, as if I were floating down some side branch of a river.

  Mitch Albom

  Phones, Rivers, Floating

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• Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Kindness, Objects

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Jul 21, 2011

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• A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are at its root.The structure itself reinforces the idea that some people are inherently more worthy than others.

  Starhawk

  Spiritual, Teaching, Inspiration

  Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.46, Beacon Press

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• This perhaps was what lay at the root of the hysteria surrounding what came to be known as the Gold Rush: Men desiring a feeling of fortune; the unlucky masses hoping to skin or borrow the luck of others, or the luck of a destination. A seductive notion, and one I thought to be wary of. To me, luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.

  Patrick deWitt

  Character, Men, Hysteria

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• It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They're so hard to pull. And grow back so easily.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Weed, Garden, Grows

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2011). “The Running Dream”, p.314, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it.

  Andrew Murray

  Humility, Waiting, Grace

  Andrew Murray (2005). “Humility and Absolute Surrender”, p.15, Hendrickson Publishers

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• 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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