Roots Quotes - Page 40

• Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Generosity, Certain, Assurance

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.124, Penguin

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• I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.

  Kingsley Amis

  Food, Pigs, Cooking

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• We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss the meaning and grandeur of the forest they compose.

  George S. Patton

  Knowledge, Tree, Missing

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• The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years.

  Bill Toomey

  Years, Games, Culture

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• If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do.

  Mark Batterson

  Limits, Plant, Grows

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• A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.

  Eric Hoffer

  Home, Men, Order

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England, and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African.

  Nelson Mandela

  England And America, Imagination, Special

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.190, Hachette UK

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• A non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet.

  Casey Kasem

  World, Violent, Diets

  "Casey Kasem, voice of Shaggy in Scooby Doo, dies on Father's Day at 82" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2014.

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• When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people.

  Jennifer Hudson

  People, Nerves, Positive Change

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• The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress

  Marianne Williamson

  Stress, Numbers, Illness

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• We ask the leaf, "Are you complete in yourself?" And the leaf answers, "No, my life is in the branches." We ask the branch, and the branch answers, "No my life is in the root." We ask the root, and it answers, "No my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves, and I shall die," So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Tree, Answers, Branches

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2007). “The Meaning of Prayer”, p.189, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The root of prayer is interior silence.

  Thomas Keating

  Prayer, Silence, Interiors

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• If your motivation for acquiring money or success comes from a non-supportive root such as fear, anger or the need to 'prove' yourself, your money will never bring you happiness.

  T. Harv Eker

  Motivation, Supportive, Needs

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Dec 20, 2015

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• Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Spring, Religion

  Commonweal, 17 Apr. 1936

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• I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. It is futile to argue as to which leaf, which design of branches, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Flower, Design

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• The root of all our personal and emotional difficulties is a lack of togetherness... I therefore believe that the surest route to overcoming problems and becoming the people we were meant to be is reconnecting with God and with our community.

  Larry Crabb

  Believe, Emotional, People

  Larry Crabb (2005). “Connecting: Healing Ourselves and Our Relationships”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.

  Malcolm X

  People, Tree, Dead People

  Malcolm X (1990). “Malcolm X on Afro-American History”, Pathfinder Press

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• God the Father's a deep root; the Son's the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance

  Tertullian

  Father, Son, World

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• The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.

  Watchman Nee

  Blood, Christ On The Cross, Done

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.10, CLC Publications

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• If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Struggle, Attachment, Suffering

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• Many of us refuse to grow where we are put;
  consequently, we take root nowhere.

  Oswald Chambers

  Grows, Refuse

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.501, Discovery House

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• My ability to get through my day greatly depends on the relationship that I have with other women...We have to be able to champion other women. We have to root for each other's successes and not delight in one another's failures.

  Michelle Obama

  Champion, Delight, Able

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• A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.

  J. C. Ryle

  Lying, Saving, Sin

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Drawing, Profit, Time Spent

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• Self-respect is the root of discipline

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Self, Discipline, Dignity

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