Roots Quotes - Page 26

• When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever.

  Ieyasu Tokugawa

  Heart, Forever, Desire

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• All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And that context, astounding even to bodily eyes, is the heaven of stars and the incredible procession of the great galaxies.

  William Macneile Dixon

  Life, Stars, Eye

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• And what a congress of stinks!- Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks, Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.

  Theodore Roethke

  Life, Giving Up, Breathing

  1948 The Lost Son,'Root Cellar'.

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• Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Music, Heart, Silence

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Heart, Tree, Culture

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• This body, the United States Congress, was united, Republicans and Democrats alike, in taking that action, toppling the Taliban government, and working to try and root out al Qaeda and find Osama bin Laden.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Government, Trying, United States

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• The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Creative, Process, Force

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• Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Race, Europe, Events

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.357, Courier Corporation

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• God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.

  Theodore Roethke

  Soul, Body, God Bless

  Theodore Roethke (2005). “Selected Poems”

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• That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Lying, Unseen, World

  Rudolf Steiner, Max Gysi (2011). “Outline of Occult Science”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• We must eradicate root and branch any fear and dread in our soul concerning the future that is coming towards us... We must develop composure with regard to all the feelings and sensations we have about the future; we must anticipate with absolute equanimity whatever may be coming towards us, thinking only that whatever it may be will be brought to us by the wisdom-filled guidance of the universe.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Thinking, Soul, Feelings

  Rudolf Steiner (2011). “On Fear”, p.29, Rudolf Steiner Press

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• The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

  Byron White

  Law, Judging, Design

  Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186, 1985.

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• Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Daughter, Mother, Drawing

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.33, Knopf

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• When I was 12 years old, or however old I was when Bringing It All Back Home came out, I'd just skip back and forth endlessly between 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' and 'It's Alright, Ma' and 'Mr. Tambourine Man,' and now my Bob Dylan roots are showing big time.

  Rodney Crowell

  Home, Men, Years

  "The Outsider / Rodney Crowell makes music outside the country -- and country's -- mainstream" by Derk Richardson, www.sfgate.com. September 29, 2005.

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• People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.

  Haki R. Madhubuti

  Land, People, Giving

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• First, in your sermons, use your logic, and then your rhetoric; Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are caught with fine expressions when they understand not reason.

  John Selden

  Taken, Expression, Tree

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• Never have the world's moneys been so long cut off from their metallic roots.

  Murray Rothbard

  Cutting, Long, Gold

  Murray N. Rothbard (2011). “Economic Controversies”, p.755, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

  Carl Sandburg

  Struggle, Flower, Silence

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect

  Roy Jenkins

  Party, Class, Intellectual

  Roy Jenkins (1972). “What Matters Now. -”, Harper San Francisco

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• Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.

  Joseph Needham

  Technology, China, Science And Technology

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• I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies

  Henry Paulson

  Believe, Government, Causes

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• I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel the urge to grasp a passive verb or one of those nasty adverbs for the same reason. Just remember before you do that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Magic, Needs

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Mystics understand the roots of the Tao but not its branches; scientists understand its branches but not its roots. Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science; but man needs both.

  Fritjof Capra

  Science, Men, Understanding

  "The Tao of Physics". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1975.

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• I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be admissible in any field of science... This loosening of thinking seems to me to be the greatest blessing which modern science has given to us. For the belief in a single truth and in being the possessor thereof is the root cause of all evil in the world.

  Max Born

  Believe, Thinking, Blessing

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• It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet. These lines may have their roots in quite different parts of human nature, in different times or different cultural environments or different religious traditions: hence if they actually meet, that is, if they are at least so much related to each other that a real interaction can take place, then one may hope that new and interesting developments may follow.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Religious, Real, Thinking

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