Roots Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

  Plato

  Plato, Spring, Hero

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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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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• A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.

  Arthur Miller

  Long, People, Broken

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• If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Self, Deception, Want

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.233, Penguin

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• Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God who made us and not we ourselves. But we were made to be co-creators with our maker.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Humble, Dust, Earth

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.112, Convergent Books

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• I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love.

  Joy Harjo

  Journey, Light, Knowing

  Joy Harjo (1990). “In Mad Love and War”, p.25, Wesleyan University Press

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• It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that channel, that as sin bred grief, so grief may consume sin.

  Richard Sibbes

  Running, Grief, Sorrow

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.51, Titus Books

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• A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die."

  D. W Brogan

  Country, Japan, America

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• People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.

  E. V. Lucas

  People, Phrases, Guests

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• Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.

  William Shakespeare

  Greed, Strikes, Grows

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope (1747). “The Works of Shakespear: In Eight Volumes”, p.405

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• It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they use Jesus as a vehicle for achieving all of that. Like, if you give a tithe, He'll make you rich. Why? Are you hacking Him off or something? If you give a tithe, you get rid of ten percent of the root of all evil. You should be giving ninety percent. Cause God can handle money better than we can.

  Rich Mullins

  Jesus, Thinking, America

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• The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Humility, And Love

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.162, InterVarsity Press

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• Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Tree, Heaven

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.175, Routledge

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• I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.

  Benigno Aquino III

  Mean, Ideas, People

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• Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind; so faith takes firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Christian, Struggle, Wind

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1847). “Additional Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Late Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee: Consisting of Various Sermons and Lectures Delivered by Him in the Course of His Ministry”, p.470

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• It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense of being alone in an empty universe, the agonies that thrilled through me as if the blood were running ice-cold through my veins, the disgust with living, the impossibility of dying. Shakespeare himself never described this torture; but he counts it, in Hamlet, among the terrible of all the evils of existence. I had stopped composing; my mind seemed to become feebler as my feelings grew more intense. I did nothing. One power was left to me-to suffer.

  Hector Berlioz

  Depression, Running, Heart

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• The struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith.

  Ronald Reagan

  Faith, Spiritual, Military

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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• The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

  Max Born

  Truth, Evil, World

  Max Born (2013). “Physics in My Generation”, p.143, Springer

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• Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

  Douglas Coupland

  Running, Two, People

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