Roots Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Reflection, Giving, Mind

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2010). “Essays of Schopenhauer”, p.77, The Floating Press

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• When day begins to break I count my blessings, good and bad, Being wakeful for your sake, Remembering the covenant we've always had, What eagle look your face still shows, While up from my heart's root So great a sweetness flows I shake from head to foot.

  P. C. Cast

  Heart, Blessing, Eagles

  P.C. Cast (2016). “Divine By Mistake”, p.171, Harlequin

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• For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracting superlatives, figuring the square root of an absolute and then multiplying by maybe.

  Tim O'Brien

  Thinking, Squares, Finding Yourself

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Intellectual, Odor, Rotting

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.70, LSU Press

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• The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.

  George Orwell

  Long, Evil, Tree

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more than sympathetic contempt. I view my species with a combination of wonder and pity, and I root for its destruction. And please don't confuse my point of view with cynicism; the real cynics are the ones who tell you everything's gonna be all right.

  George Carlin

  Real, Views, May

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.11, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have a sound historical or rational basis, but because they are found in practice to give the faithful a sense of sacred transcendence.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religious, Practice, Ideas

  Karen Armstrong (2002). “Islam: A Short History”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

  John Green

  Mean, Long, Suffering

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.301, A&C Black

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• she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock

  Sherman Alexie

  Hair, Hands, Stories

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• The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Earth, Branches

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.411, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.’ (Talon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Tree, Insanity, Yeah

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.404, Macmillan

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• My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.

  Michael Jordan

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mind

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• Branches grew from his hands, his hair. His thoughts tangled like roots in the ground. He strained upward. Pitch ran like tears down his back. His name formed his core; ring upon ring of silence built around it. His face rose high above the forests. Gripped to earth, bending to the wind's fury, he disappeared within himself, behind the hard, wind-scrolled shield of his experiences.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Hair, Hands, Wind

  Patricia A. McKillip (1999). “Riddle-Master”, p.535, Penguin

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• I handed my tools. The two of them reached down to help me out of the crater I'd dug. ''Isn't that a little deep?'' Yoda asked. ''It'll help the roots get established,'' I explained. ''Established where? China?

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Two, Tools, Littles

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Twisted”, p.32, Scholastic UK

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• The realization that I’d have nothing to take home had finally sunk in. My knees buckled and I slid down the tree trunk to its roots. It was too much. I was too sick and weak and tired, oh, so tired. Let them call the Peacekeepers and take us to the community home, I thought. Or better yet, let me die right here in the rain.

  Suzanne Collins

  Rain, Tired, Home

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.43, Scholastic Inc.

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• Because of course she had known she must go. She always did the thing because in obedience lay the integrity that God asked of her. If anyone had asked her what she meant by integrity she would not have been able to tell them but she had seen it once like a picture in her mind, a root going down into the earth and drinking deeply there. No one was really alive without that root.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Integrity, Drinking, Mind

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• As we forge deeper into this issue of forgiveness, we must be prepared to open up and discuss things that bother us before they escalate to a crisis level. We must examine our struggles with forgiveness in which there are not overt offenses or blatant betrayals. I'm convinced that seeds of resentment take root in the silent frustrations that never get discussed. Other people cannot read our minds--or our palms!--and that is why we have tongues to speak.

  T. D. Jakes

  Betrayal, Struggle, Frustration

  T.D. Jakes (2013). “Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• A forest," William said, his expression distant. "Where the ground is dry soil and stone. Where tall trees grow and centuries of autumn carpet their roots. Where the wind smells of game and wildflowers." "Why, that was lovely, Lord Bill. Do you ever write poetry? Something for your blueblood lady?" "No." "She doesn't like poetry?" "Leave it." Hehe. "Oh, so you have a lady. How interes--

  Ilona Andrews

  Writing, Autumn, Expression

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.55, Penguin

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• An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]

  C. S. Lewis

  Father, Almost Perfect, Perfect Relationship

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• The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it.

  Andrew Murray

  Humility, Waiting, Grace

  Andrew Murray (2005). “Humility and Absolute Surrender”, p.15, Hendrickson Publishers

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• I always root for the monster.

  J.R. Ward

  Monsters, Godzilla

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.269, Penguin

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