Roots Quotes - Page 5

• Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.

  Charles Olson

  Dirt, Clear

  Charles Olson (1997). “The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems”, p.106, Univ of California Press

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• Charity is the root of all good works.

  Saint Augustine

  Charity, Good Work

  Saint Augustine (1992). “Sermons 148-183 on the New Testament”, p.310, New City Press

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• Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Mother, Saint, Charity

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• The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.

  Willie Dixon

  Fruit

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• Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Sports, Famous Inspirational

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• Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the earthly and the conventional, into the very realities of being, not consciously always; seldom, perhaps; the simplicity of loving grows by living simply near nature and God.

  Lucy Larcom

  Home, Reality, Rich Or Poor

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• I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'

  George Thorndike Angell

  Time, Kindness, Animal

  George Thorndike Angell (1884). “Autobiographical Sketches and Personal Recollections”

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• I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself longing for it to become big and strong--Mother Nature's fist of fury, Gaia's stern rebuke. Considering the havoc mankind has wreaked upon nature with deforesting, stripmining, and the destruction of animal habitat, it only seems fair that nature get some of its own back and teach us that there are forces greater than our own.

  James Wolcott

  Mother, Strong, Stupid

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• We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

  Donald Knuth

  Learning, Evil, Debugging

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• Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, Spring, Cutting

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• Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

  Epictetus

  Taken, Coward, Dread

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• You have to know what's happening in the locker rooms, you have to know what's happening at the grass-roots level. That's the best way to work.

  Jacques Rogge

  Levels, Lockers, Way

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• War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

  Frank Herbert

  War, Cells, Sea

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.281, Penguin

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• I should be at peace. I have understood. Don't some say that peace comes when you understand? I have understood. I should be at peace. Who said that peace derives from the contemplation of order, order understood, enjoyed, realized without residuum, in joy and truimph, the end of effort? All is clear, limpid; the eye rests on the whole and on the parts and sees how the parts have conspired to make the whole; it perceives the center where the lymph flows, the breath, the root of the whys.

  Umberto Eco

  Eye, Order, Effort

  Umberto Eco (2014). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.639, Random House

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• ..and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and man’s only recourse thereafter was to water and tend it; that propagation was a fiction; consequently, society was a fiction too; that fathers and teachers, by virtue of being fathers and teachers, were guilty of a grievous sin.

  Yukio Mishima

  Teacher, Father, Simple

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• It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all arise together. My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Stars, Children, Distance

  "Transcript for the Piece Audio version of A Wizard of Earthsea: A Big Read Documentary". www.prx.org.

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• No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wealth, Force, Ability

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots

  Tupac Shakur

  Berries, Juice, Flesh

  Song: Keep Ya Head Up, 1993

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• No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.

  Virginia Woolf

  Believe, Passion, Cutting

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Wind, Tree, Shadow

  "Jane Eyre". Book by Charlotte Bronte, October 16, 1847.

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• But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Sex, Wall, Women

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

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• Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Vines, Grows

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• Know why people run marathons? …Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles, Starry Night, intravascular surgery; they all had their roots in our ability to run. Running was the superpower that made us human — which means its a superpower all humans posses.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Art, Mean

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.239, Profile Books

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• The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind.

  Shannon Hale

  Girl, Lying, Hair

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Forest Born”, p.147, A&C Black

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• The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.

  Emmet Fox

  Faith, Difficulty, Presence Of God

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