Roots Quotes - Page 25

• Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.

  William C. Bryant

  Fruit, Innocence, Virtue

  William Cullen Bryant, “Mutation”

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• Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Hatred, Interest, Wells

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• I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

  Norman Mailer

  Writing, Thinking, Creative

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.86, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

  Hannah More

  Children, Men, Evil

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• It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil ... which asserts that because forms of evil have always existed in society, therefore they must always exist.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Evil, Effort, Lifetime

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.215, Library of Alexandria

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• No American worth his salt should go looking around for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.

  Wyndham Lewis

  America, Salt, Modesty

  "The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work".

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• Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

  Robert Burns

  Motivational, Wisdom, Power

  Robert Burns (2009). “Poems and Songs of Robert Burns”, p.358, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Evil, Selfishness, Moral

  Nathanael Emmons (1860). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D., Third Pastor of the Church in Franklin, Mass: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.195

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• The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

  Stuart Wilde

  Money, Evil, Said

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• There seemed to be endless obstacles - it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

  Marion Milner

  Causes, Obstacles, Endless

  Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.157, Taylor & Francis

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• We must take root; send out some little fibre at least, even every winter day.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Winter, Littles, Winter Days

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.428, New York Review of Books

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• Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

  Leigh Hunt

  Flower, Evil, Bitter

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• Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot. Teach me to hear Mermaides' singing, Or to keep of envies stinging, And finde What winde Serves to advance an honest minde.

  John Donne

  Children, Honesty, Fall

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• Getting to know the feel of both emotional energies, fear and courage, will enable you to choose courage more consciously. You don't want fear's energy running rampant in your beautiful self, even if you know its root. Whenever you're afraid, invoke courage to transform fear, the formula for freedom.

  Judith Orloff

  Beautiful, Running, Emotional

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• When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, "I am the watcher, I am not sadness," and see the difference. Immediately you have cut the very root of sadness. It is no more nourished. It will die of starvation. We feed these emotions by being identified with them.

  Rajneesh

  Sadness, Cutting, Differences

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• What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.

  Paul Cezanne

  Serendipity, Trying, Mysterious

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• A good parent gives their child roots and wings.

  Jonas Salk

  Children, Parenting, Wings

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• God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sleep, Night, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.274

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• Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Writing, Self, Names

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• Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Strong, Philosophical, Animal

  "Memoirs of Childhood and Youth". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1924.

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• We're [President Barack Obama and I] clear on the fact that we have to stay humble and prayerful. We have to dig down deep to our roots. When things come together, we know some of it is Barack, some of it is us-but a lot of it has nothing to do with either of us.

  Michelle Obama

  Humble, Luck, President

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• Christianity is not a political theory. It is not even a cultural theory. It is, at its root, all about changing the heart of each man and woman, boy and girl, so that we begin to think God's thoughts and act in accordance with his character.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Girl, Heart, Character

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• A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows towards it, by reaching out to the sun, the tree perfects its character and becomes great. ... Absorb, absorb, absorb. That is the secret of the tree.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Rain, Character, Tree

  Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice, virtue, and the common good, will always have men to promote those ends; and that which intends the advancement of one man's desire and vanity, will abound in those that will foment them.

  Algernon Sidney

  Men, Vanity, Justice

  Algernon Sidney (1794). “Life, Memoirs,&c. of Algernon Sydney”, p.112

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• So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the struggle. Union means so many millions a year lost to the South; secession means the loss of the same millions to the North. The love of money is the root of this as of many many other evils ... the quarrel between North and South is, as it stands, solely a fiscal quarrel.

  Charles Dickens

  Lying, Party, Struggle

  Charles Dickens (1862). “All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal”, p.330

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