There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being. — David Whyte
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. — Dalai Lama
Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation. — Charlie Cook
No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell. — Carl Jung
Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them. — Jonas Salk
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. — Carl Sandburg
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. — Theodore Roethke
The Latin root of 'cult' means 'grow'. This Latin root is the word origin of a good number of English words, including culture, cultivate and horticulture. — Robert Breedlove
Short Root Quotes
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. — Dalai Lama
Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness. — William Carey
Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live. — Julian of Norwich
Military action without politics is like a tree without a root. — Ho Chi Minh
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? — Ayn Rand
The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting. — Sanford Meisner
Storms make trees take deeper roots. — Dolly Parton
All humor is rooted in pain. — Richard Pryor
Root Image Quotes
Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath. — Wilt Chamberlain
Inequality is the root of social evil. — Pope Francis
The root of suffering is attachment.
The roots of Cuban music are in my head. — Compay Segundo
If you don't root for the Dodgers, you might not get into heaven. — Tommy Lasorda
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
Tree Root Quotes
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. — Marcus Garvey
Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist. — Amy Carmichael
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. — Amelia Earhart
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.
Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people. — Malcolm X
Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God
manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of
the tree feeds on in secret, affects the bough and
the leaf. — Rumi
Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness. — Eckhart Tolle
Storms make trees take deeper roots
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow. — B.K.S. Iyengar
The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree? — Richard Baxter
No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley. — Seneca
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree — Vita Sackville-West
Root Cause Quotes
Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world. — George C. Marshall
Greed is the root cause of sorrow. —
Poverty is not the root cause of crime. — Rush Limbaugh
Expectation is the too of all heartache.
Don’t just treat the symptoms, address the root cause of your health issues. — Eric Berg
Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system requires equal development opportunities for all nations. — Willy Brandt
Root cause of enormous porofilic diseases is poor glycemic control. — Gary Brecka
There are two gifts we should give our children, one is roots and the other is wings
The Church in the Philippines is called to acknowledge and combat the causes of the deeply rooted inequality and injustice which mar the face of Filipino society, plainly contradicting the teaching of Christ. — Pope Francis
Depression's root cause may tie to nutrient deficiencies affecting neurotransmitter production in the gut-brain axis; mental conditions often stem from physiological imbalances. — Gary Brecka
Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight. — Mikhail Naimy
When I talk about 'apolitical' or 'nonpartisan' change, I mean first and foremost exploring root causes with due seriousness and at least agreeing on what they are. — Bret Weinstein
Money Is The Root Of All Evil Quotes
Money Is The Root Of All Evil I Thought....But When Im Broke Is Usually When I Have The Evilest Thoughts — Fabolous
They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil. — Paul the Apostle
... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism. — Robert Kiyosaki
Storms make oaks take roots.
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. — Carl Sandburg
There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil. — Sayings
But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish desires and schemes that plunge them into ruin and destruction. For love of money is the root of all of evil and some having pursued its power, fall from faith and end in sorrow. — Saint Timothy
If you don't like where you are, change it. You're not a tree.
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes. — Louisa May Alcott
Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It's not racism and "this-ism" and "that-ism"; it's our thirst and hunger for money. And that's where all the bodies are buried. — Ice Cube
I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen. — Kato Kaelin
A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere. — Warren Buffett
Family Root Quotes
To separate from my culture (as from my family) I had to feel competent enough on the outside and secure enough inside to live life on my own. Yet in leaving home I did not lose touch with my origins because lo mexicano is in my system. I am a turtle, wherever I go I carry 'home' on my back. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be 'strangers in a strange land,' who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt. — Salvador Minuchin
A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness — Dalai Lama
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy. — Chanakya
Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people. — Alex Haley
If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life. — Julia Louis-Dreyfus
The seeds of will never take root in a grateful heart!
After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream. — Ellen Tauscher
Congolese rumba was so huge in Africa that everybody was inspired by it. But my African roots brought me this music. In every African family, parties in Brussels, we used to listen to this kind of music. And salsa music as well. — Stromae
I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire. — Antonio Lobo Antunes
Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots. — Vidya Balan
Root Beer Quotes
There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible. — A. Alfred Taubman
The roots and herbes beaten and put into new ale or beer and daily drunk, cleareth, strengtheneth and quickeneth the sight of the eyes. — Nicholas Culpeper
The barriers you have in life are rooted in doubt and disguised in fear.
The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness. — Mark Kurlansky
I use dull colors in my drawings because I started out using a root beer base because it seemed like an interesting idea and when it turned out that it worked quite well as an ink I started using other colors that would compliment it. — Marcel Dzama
So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer. — Corra May Harris
I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone. — Holly Black
A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside. — Nicholson Baker
I think all it really takes for different people to get along is a common rooting interest and a few beers. — Matthew Quick
Root Canals Quotes
Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic. — Al Goldstein
I had rather get a root canal without anesthesia than to call your customer service office for help. — Jon Jones
Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes. — Robert Fulghum
The last time I had this much fun was a root-canal operation. — Larry Ziegler
So we took out those 3 root canals when she had 3-6 months to live. And that was 6 years ago, and she is still alive today, and MRI can't find the tumour anymore. It went away. — Hal Huggins
I have had a number of patients with breast cancer, all of whom had root canals on the tooth related to the breast area on the associated energy meridian. — John Diamond
Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of can we presume to look at the larger questions. — Cynthia Heimel
dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions. — John Green
The average household might prepare for root canal, traffic accident, unemployment or illness, but how the household will meet, manage and even survive violent crime is the most neglected area of household management. — John Longenecker
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you have something that isn't right, the earlier you treat it the easier the treatment is going to be. That's kind of common sense. — Olivia Newton-John
Strong Roots Quotes
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
I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values are offended by some of the things I hear on programs like "Rush Limbaugh," and we don't have to put up with that. — Howard Dean
My Latin roots are very strong. All my life, because I'm blonde and blue-eyed, people who aren't Hispanic can't believe I am. And people who are Hispanic always think I'm not, because I don't look like them. Being Latin is part of who I am and I bring that part to every role. — Cameron Diaz
A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon. — Dalai Lama
Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong, resilient, unbreakable. The plum blossom is hardy, fragrant, and elegant. — Morihei Ueshiba
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. — David Mallet
Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground. — Pope Paul VI
I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind. — May Sarton
Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again — Buddha
For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. — George Washington Carver
Caste is a state of mind. It is a disease of mind. The teachings of the Hindu religion are the root cause of this disease. We practice casteism and we observe Untouchability because we are enjoined to do so by the Hindu religion. A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar. — B. R. Ambedkar
The pleasure and joy of man lies in treading down the rebel and conquering the enemy, in tearing him up by the root, in taking from him all that he has. — Genghis Khan
For this purpose was I born, let all virtuous people understand. I was born to advance righteousness, to emancipate the good, and to destroy all evil-doers root and branch. — Guru Gobind Singh
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. — T. S. Eliot
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. — John Steinbeck
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality. — Bell Hooks
O, You who are ever giving life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them clean, wiping out their mistakes, healing their wounds, You are our true life, luminous, wonderful, awakening the heart from its ancient sleep. — Hildegard of Bingen
The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth. — Maria Montessori
We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional society which produced us. — Julius Nyerere
Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul. — Anthony of Padua
Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate in those decisions that affect my life and the lives of my children. It means that I am somebody. — Whitney M. Young
Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love. — Sri Yukteswar Giri
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. — Liu Xiaobo
I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, repression. All this is what constitutes the primal cause, from which the rest flows naturally. — Oscar Romero
The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. — David Steindl-Rast
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all. — Baal Shem Tov
Surround yourself with positive people. Also, be a positive person. Root for people. Somebody else's success is not your failure. — Bill Burr
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don’t want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots. — I. M. Pei
Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice. — Bryan Stevenson
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