Roots Quotes - Page 65

I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

The unsparing savagery of stories like “The Robber Bridegroom” is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture as much as to the culture of childhood... They capture anxieties and fantasies that have deep roots in childhood experience.

I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots.

Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.

I would not say Denmark is a multicultural country, but more people live here now who have different roots, backgrounds and religions, more than 30 years ago. This also applies to religions.

I feel sorry for anyone that I am obsessed with. I am worse than gum in your hair, very, very close to the roots.

The need of the human mind for contrast has its roots in the mind's age-old habit of looking for differences and likenesses. When the mind can find no differences and no likenesses, as is the case when monotony is present, it restlessly, then resentfully, and at last frantically seeks for contrast that it may again busy itself with observing differences and likenesses.

There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.

The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light.

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love.

It is my conviction that the root of evil is the want of a living God.

True terrorism, you know, weaponized fear. In defense of ourselves, we're fighting - actively fighting something else. But if you're going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism.

The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing.

I believe I've put forth a tiny soul-root into Kingsport soil this afternoon. I hope so. I hate to feel transplanted.

Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath.

Prayer is a ritual! But at the root of prayer is the idea of complete bowing down in submission to the Will of God.

I want to take IBM back to its roots.

I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.

Fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.

For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.

marriages do not take root in the presence of witnesses but only in the consciousness of the persons involved.