Roots Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• There is a wilful lemming-like persistance in remaking past successes time after time. They can't make them as good as they are in our memories, but they go on doing them and each time it's a disaster. Why don't we remake some of our bad pictures - I'd love another shot at 'Roots of Heaven' - and make them good?

  John Huston

  Memories, Past, Heaven

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• Although I have started my solo activities but this doesnt mean I'll give up my roots, SS501 is my root .

  Kim Hyun-joong

  Giving Up, Mean, Solo

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• I think maybe God was trying to tell me that gentleness begins with strength, quietness with security. A great tree is both moved and unmoved, for it changes with the seasons, but its roots keep it anchored in the ground. Mastering a gentle and quiet spirit didn’t mean changing my personality, just regaining control of it, growing strong enough to hold back and secure enough to soften.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Strong, Mean, Thinking

  Rachel Held Evans (2012). “A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband "master"”, p.16, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• King George III may have been a greedy ‘control freak,’ but at least he was a Christian. The United States is being run by a Muslim bent on furthering an Islamic caliphate who seeks to destroy our spirituality and the body politic of our Judeo-Christian roots.

  Larry Klayman

  Christian, Running, Kings

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• The root cause of terrorism is terrorists.

  Pierre Poilievre

  Causes, Terrorism, Root Cause

  "Pierre Poilievre: 'The Root Cause Of Terrorism Is Terrorists'". www.huffingtonpost.ca. April 24, 2013.

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• The Kennedy assassination has demonstrated that most of the major events of world significance are masterfully planned and orchestrated by an elite coterie of enormously powerful people who are not of one nation, one ethnic grouping, or one over-ridingly important business group. They are a power unto themselves for whom those others work. Neither is this power elite of recent origin. Its roots go deep into the past.

  L. Fletcher Prouty

  Powerful, Past, People

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• To read a lot of trash mixing the blood of war with business’s stench. To root out any happiness. To go out, and down, and on the road. To hesitate; to go on, and ahead, and back, and up the stairs, and in one’s room. On the way, to notice that the mountain is still there. To lie and sleep, deeply, heavily. To reproduce night’s sleep. To wake up, look through the window at green water, from the Bay to the mountain, and return to one’s self. To remember that war is devastating Irak. To feel pain.

  Etel Adnan

  Pain, War, Lying

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• For historical currents do not irresistibly propel themselves and everyone in their path. No matter what their broader structural or ideological roots, they both carry along and are carried along by people, who are not merely passengers of history, but pilots as well.

  Doug McAdam

  People, Historical, Pilots

  Doug McAdam (1988). “Freedom Summer”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The roots of our ecological crises are axiomatic: they lie in our belief and value structures which shape our relationship with nature, with each other and the lifestyles we lead.

  Ziauddin Sardar

  Lying, Shapes, Beliefs And Values

  Ziauddin Sardar, Ehsan Masood (2006). “How do you know?: reading Ziauddin Sardar on Islam, science and cultural relations”, Pluto Pr

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• Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric, giving you roots and a local identity. You are assimilated, and in erasing your differences and making you one of their own, the community can maintain belief in its wholeness and purity. After two or three generations, nobody remembers the story is fiction. It has become fact. And this is how history is made.

  Camilla Gibb

  Two, Differences, Giving

  Camilla Gibb (2007). “Sweetness in the Belly”, p.84, Penguin

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• We absolutely must battle with every bit of determination we can muster to root out the harm that would warp the souls and spirits of children in our world.

  Wess Stafford

  Determination, Children, Our World

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.159, WaterBrook

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• It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

  Le Corbusier

  Social Unrest, Today, Revolution

  1923 Vers une architecture (translated as Towards a New Architecture,1927).

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• My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.

  David Miliband

  Winning, Simple, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Life, Beauty, Death

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• Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Character, Giving

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life.

  Tayeb Salih

  Life, Education, Garden

  Tayeb Salih (1991). “Season of Migration to the North”, p.119, Heinemann

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• Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose.

  Robin McKinley

  Dark, Sight, Rose

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• The other guys, all they have to do is use their big butts and big python arms to hit homers. Me, I'm the little guy in the group. People always root for the little guy.

  Ken Griffey, Jr.

  Python, People, Guy

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• We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or else we brood and too firmly root. Very few can step forward again and again in what amounts to veritable leaps into the void, where there are no ready holds, where little is familiar, where you get constantly stuck in the thickets of your uncertainties and fears.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Maps, Littles, Void

  Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.98, Penguin

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• The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.

  Edward Abbey

  Night, Acorns, Blind

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• As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

  Daniel Defoe

  Evil, Poverty, Snares

  'Moll Flanders' (1721)

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• This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on leavings and garbage . . . What about our own roots? . . . I am up against the system, the whole method and approach of a system of education which makes us morons, cultural morons, but efficient clerks for all your business and administration offices.

  R.K. Narayan

  Education, Office, Leaving

  R. K. Narayan (2012). “The English Teacher”, p.328, Vintage

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• The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity.

  Carl Jung

  Father, Might, Spirit

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Blessed, Apology

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