Roots Quotes - Page 35

• You are the root of heaven, the morning star, the bright moon, the house of endless Love

  Rumi

  Morning, Stars, Moon

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• Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.

  Mark Nepo

  Moving, Wind, Water

  Mark Nepo (2011). “As Far As the Heart Can See: Stories to Illuminate the Soul”, p.2, Health Communications, Inc.

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• There are two great systems in the body of man: the tree of life, which is the arterial with its roots in the heart; and, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, i.e. the nervous system, which has its roots in the brain. These two "trees" are physical manifestations of a complicated network of branching energy currents in the aura or superphysical bodies.

  Manly Hall

  Heart, Men, Two

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• You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the hooves of a bay mare, or that I'd ask the sorcerers for some magic potion made from roots and send you a terrible gift: my precious perfumed handkerchief. Damn you! I will not grant your cursed soul vicarious tears or a single glance. And I swear to you by the garden of the angels, I swear by the miracle-working ikon, and by the fire and smoke of our nights: I will never come back to you.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Broken Heart, Angel, Night

  Anna Akhmatova, “You Thought I Was That Type”

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• Paul spoke about the root of faith (Eph 2:8). James spoke about the fruit of faith (Jm 2:17-18).

  Adrian Rogers

  Fruit, Spokes

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• In the Old Testament…God is the owner of the vineyard. Here He is the Keeper, the Farmer, the One who takes care of the vineyard. Jesus is the genuine Vine, and the Father takes care of Him…In the Old Testament it is prophesied that the Lord Jesus would grow up before Him as a tender plant and as a root out of the dry ground. Think how often the Father intervened to save Jesus from the devil who wished to slay Him. The Father is the One who cared for the Vine, and He will care for the branches, too.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Jesus, Growing Up, Father

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• To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them ‘common’ to all participants in the discourse. (The etymological root of communication means ‘common.’)

  Robin Lakoff

  Communication, Writing, Mean

  Robin Tolmach Lakoff (2001). “The Language War”, p.59, Univ of California Press

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• Remember, the political idea being expressed a year ago was that because the GOP interpreted its 1994 mandate as a call to budget-balancing austerity, the electorate would never give the White House to the GOP if its nominee was also a root-canal austerian.

  Jude Wanniski

  Years, Ideas, White

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• I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Who We Are, Deny, Certain

  "O Magazine", May 2004.

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• I view Witchcraft as a religion that has evolved over the centuries. I do not consider Witchcraft to be a modern invention. Instead I deal with it in my writings as a Mystery Tradition with long roots to the past. It has always been my position that we don't need an ancient tradition in order to be validated. We just happen to have one.

  Raven Grimassi

  Writing, Past, Views

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• Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools.

  Helen DeWitt

  School, Evil, Gardener

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• What makes the strength of the soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a whole lot of signals, it's the strength he's able to concentrate within himself, by staying centered. That Maori player was like a tree, a great indestructible oak with deep roots and a powerful radiance- everyone could feel it. And yet you also got the impression that the great oak could fly, that it would be as quick as the wind, despite, or perhaps because of, its deep roots.

  Muriel Barbery

  Powerful, Player, Wind

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• Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.

  Andrew Vachss

  Running, Nice, Tree

  Andrew Vachss (2001). “Flood”, p.193, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I can't multiply myself out of a paper bag. But when it comes to roots, I'm your man.

  Jerry Newport

  Men, Bags, Paper

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• A strengthened national spirit can provide the motive power to rise our people from the depths and... pour new life and vigor in the national system.
  The reinvigoration of the national spirit must take place in the grass roots, in every city, town and barrio in the Philippines, and it must start among our own people... To be a worthy citizen of the world one must first prove himself to be a good Filipino.

  Carlos P. Romulo

  Cities, People, Depth

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• Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises.

  Gary Gygax

  Exercise, Playing Games, Rpgs

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• How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with male persons, and of the female with females.

  Richard von Krafft-Ebing

  Dream, Sex, Males

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• Human hopes and human creeds; have their root in human needs.

  Eugene Fitch Ware

  Needs, Creeds, Humans

  Eugene Fitch Ware (1899). “Some of the Rhymes of Ironquill [pseud.]: (A Book of Moods.) ...”

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• If busyness can become a kind of violence, we do not have to stretch our perception very far to see that Sabbath time – effortless, nourishing rest – can invite a healing of this violence. When we consecrate a time to listen to the still, small voices, we remember the root of inner wisdom that makes work fruitful. We remember from where we are most deeply nourished, and see more clearly the shape and texture of the people and things before us.

  Wayne Muller

  Healing, Voice, People

  Wayne Muller (2013). “Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives”, p.5, Bantam

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• Too many times we pray for ease, but that's a prayer seldom met. What we need to do is pray for roots that reach deep into the Eternal, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won't be swept asunder.

  Philip Gulley

  Prayer, Rain, Fall

  Philip Gulley (2009). “Front Porch Tales: Warm Hearted Stories of Family, Faith, Laughter and Love”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all stem from the same Abrahamic roots. All three reject terrorism.

  H. John Poole

  Islam, Three, Terrorism

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• The Death of Money is an engrossing account of the massive stresses accumulating in the global financial system, especially since the 2008 financial crisis. Jim Rickards is a natural teacher. Any serious student of financial crises and their root causes needs to read this book.

  John H. Makin

  Teacher, Stress, Book

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• Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Children, Learning

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• We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred and intolerance are allowed to take root. And we know that education and hope are the most effective ways to combat ignorance and despair.

  Gabrielle Giffords

  Children, Ignorance, Men

  "Giffords Tragedy: What’s the Message to Young Women Considering Public Service?" by Gloria Feldt, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2011.

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• I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological , ethical, political and esthetic roots-that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Patriotic, America

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.37, Penguin

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