Roots Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Passion, Thinking, Deeper

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• I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned.

  Etty Hillesum

  Peace, Believe, Lessons To Be Learned

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.245, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Perhaps, he thought, true pure love, like all flowers, flourished best with its roots in muck and mud. Perhaps that was a law of life that held everything together.

  Harry Mulisch

  Flower, Law, Together

  Harry Mulisch, Paul Vincent (1997). “The Discovery of Heaven”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and constantly dangerous, is intoxicating and ultimately toxic. 'Toxic' comes from toxicon, Pendell tells us, with a root meaning of 'a poisoned arrow.' All organic life is struck by the arrows of real and psychic poisons. This is understood by any true, that is to say, not self-deluding, spiritual path.

  Gary Snyder

  Spiritual, Real, Self

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• Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

  Dan Brown

  Culture, Common, Symbols

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.345, Random House

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• The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!

  Herman Melville

  Believe, Men, Heaven

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.5, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• I have a rule for working out if the root problem of something is, in fact, sexism. And it is this: asking 'Are the boys doing it? Are the boys having to worry about this stuff? Are the boys the centre of a gigantic global debate on this subject?

  Caitlin Moran

  Boys, Work Out, Worry

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• The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.

  Ayn Rand

  Race, Racism, Racist

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.149, Penguin

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• He smiled his dimpled smile. "Well, I've found something in my heart, my love, and it's you. You fill it up so completely that I don't need anything else." His gaze turned solemn. "I don't want to be the river anymore. I want to be the earth that the tree roots in. And I believe that I can, if you'll be my tree. Will you?" It was too much. She began to cry, though she smiled so he'd know that they were happy tears. "That proposal...is vastly superior...to your last one," she choked out between sobs. "I would very much love to be your tree." -Jarret and Annabel

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Believe, Heart, Rivers

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• At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.

  Scott Hahn

  Desire, Misery, Unfulfilled Desires

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• Through wind, and tempest, storm, and rain; The calm shall be buried inside of me; A warm stone, heavy and dry; The root, the source, a weapon against pain

  Lauren Oliver

  Pain, Rain, Wind

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.434, Hachette UK

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• He felt around desperately for a weapon. What did he have? Diapers? Cookies? Oh, why hadn't they given him a sword? He was the stupid warrior, wasn't he? His fingers dug in the leather bag and closed around the root beer can. Root beer! He yanked out the can shaking it with all his might. "Attack! Attack!" he yelled.

  Suzanne Collins

  Stupid, Beer, Warrior

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.119, Scholastic Inc.

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• Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving... Where there is grafting there will always be a cutting, the graft must be let in with a wound; to stick it onto the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. Heart must be set to heart and back to back or there will be no sap from root to branch. And this, I say, must be done by a wound, by a cut.

  John Bunyan

  Heart, Cutting, Men

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• Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more than a spectator sport. Everything must have a cause, and a name. Every random thought must have a root in something else.

  Derek Landy

  Sports, Talking, Names

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• The realization that I’d have nothing to take home had finally sunk in. My knees buckled and I slid down the tree trunk to its roots. It was too much. I was too sick and weak and tired, oh, so tired. Let them call the Peacekeepers and take us to the community home, I thought. Or better yet, let me die right here in the rain.

  Suzanne Collins

  Rain, Tired, Home

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.43, Scholastic Inc.

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• Because of course she had known she must go. She always did the thing because in obedience lay the integrity that God asked of her. If anyone had asked her what she meant by integrity she would not have been able to tell them but she had seen it once like a picture in her mind, a root going down into the earth and drinking deeply there. No one was really alive without that root.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Integrity, Drinking, Mind

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• As we forge deeper into this issue of forgiveness, we must be prepared to open up and discuss things that bother us before they escalate to a crisis level. We must examine our struggles with forgiveness in which there are not overt offenses or blatant betrayals. I'm convinced that seeds of resentment take root in the silent frustrations that never get discussed. Other people cannot read our minds--or our palms!--and that is why we have tongues to speak.

  T. D. Jakes

  Betrayal, Struggle, Frustration

  T.D. Jakes (2013). “Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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