Roots Quotes - Page 19

• The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.

  Nhat Hanh

  War, Our Society, Way

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.86, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• 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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• When I say, "Be my lover", I don't mean, "Let's have an affair." I don't mean "Sleep with me." I don't mean, "Be my secret." I want us to go back down to that root. I want you to be the one who loves me. I want to be the one who loves you.

  David Levithan

  Love You, Mean, Sleep

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.131, Macmillan

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• It's because...you see, if we had souls, which we haven't, and if our souls met--yours and mine--they'd fight to the death. But after they had torn each other to pieces, to the very bottom, they'd see that they had the same root.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Soul, Pieces

  Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.106, Penguin

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• My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.

  William Carlos Williams

  Youth, Conformity, Buried

  William Carlos Williams (1995). “Paterson”, p.31, New Directions Publishing

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• It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.

  Anne Rice

  Secret, Ends, Bigs

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos”, p.919, Ballantine Books

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• It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Country, Myth, Seems

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.21, Dell

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• I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan

  Judd Nelson

  Sports, Giving, Doubt

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• I grew up in Baltimore and that's why I root for the Orioles. I'm very suspicious of people who move and take on a new team. You should stick with the team of your youth all the way to your grave. That shows a sense of loyalty and devotion.

  Frank Deford

  Loyalty, Team, Moving

  "Sweetness And Light". NPR's "Morning Edition", August 14, 2004.

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• I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Father, Army, Years

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