Roots Quotes - Page 36

• Whatis the root of all these words?
  One thing: Love.
  But a love so deep and sweet it needed to express itself with scents, sounds, colors that never before existed.

  Hafez

  Sweet, Color, Sound

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• Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.

  William Harvey

  Men, Doctrine, Influence

  William Harvey, Edward Jenner (2010). “Scientific Papers: Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology”, p.106, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.

  Jimmy Page

  Albums, Firsts

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• You'll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of meaning that is almost obsessive. The English language is rich in strong and supple words. Take the time to root around and find the ones you want

  William Zinsser

  Strong, Curiosity, Want

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• The only form of revolution beneficial to the people is one which destroys the entire state to the roots and exterminates all the state traditions, institutions and classes…. Day and night [the revolutionary] must have but one thought, one aim – merciless destruction…for him morality is everything which contributes to the triumph of the revolution. Immoral and criminal is everything that stands in its way.

  Sergey Nechayev

  Night, Class, People

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• The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong. Nor can it pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

  Alva Myrdal

  Strong, Men, Political

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.

  Michael Connelly

  Mean, Evil, Causes

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• But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain.

  Theodor Herzl

  Giving, Wish, Soil

  Theodor Herzl (1960). “Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men”

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• The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at. A huge piece of carpeting, empty and naked plains, silent and uninterrupted stretches with nothing to alter the homogeneity of their continuity. I love wide, homogenous worlds, unstaked, unlimited like the sea, like high snows, deserts, and steppes.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Sea, Snow, Naked

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• What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the next levels, including also the scientific knowledge.

  Jean Piaget

  Different, Next Level, Levels

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• The desire for a nonviolent and cooperative world is the healthiest of all psychological manifestations. This is the overarching principle of liberation and revolution. Undoubtedly, it seems the highest order of contradiction that, in order to achieve nonviolence, we must first break with it in overcoming its root causes. Therein lies our only hope.

  Ward Churchill

  Lying, Order, Desire

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• There may be women to emerge who will be able to formulate a new and possible concept that homosexual persecution and condemnation has at its roots not only social ignorance, but a philosophically active anti-feminist dogma.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Ignorance, Feminist, May

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• Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.

  William Penn

  Believe, Good Work, Demonstration

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.158

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• Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

  Jack Kingston

  Religious, Anger, Society

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• 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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• There are three kinds of violence: one, through our deeds; two, through our words; and three, through our thoughts. …The root of all violence is in the world of thoughts, and that is why training the mind is so important.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Two, Training, Mind

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.114, Nilgiri Press

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• Woman is the root of all evil.

  St. Jerome

  Evil

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• Tofu is the root of all evil, and there's only one thing that can change a man's mind, and that's a modified Uzi with an extra-long clip.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Men, Long, Evil

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard - its profounder message: the defining of a new and unique source of truth, and the demand for a thorough revision of ethical premises, for a complete break with the animist tradition, the definitive abandonment of the 'old covenant', the necessity of forging a new one. Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the riches they owe to science, our societies are still trying to live by and to teach systems of values already blasted at the root by science itself.

  Jacques Monod

  Unique, Trying, Treasure

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