Roots Quotes

The roots of education ... are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. (Aristotle)
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. View quote
Victor Hugo
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. View quote
Florence Nightingale
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. View quote
Theodore Roethke
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. View quote
Felix Adler
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. View quote
Marcus Garvey
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots. View quote
George Herbert
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. View quote
Ray Charles
The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men. View quote
Alva Myrdal
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past. (Harry S. Truman)
Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among the roots, the maiden-fair Wine scented and poetic soul of the capacious salad bowl. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine Kind words and kind deeds. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Storms make trees take deeper roots. View quote
Dolly Parton
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bend by the same wintry fever. View quote
Dylan Thomas
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction. View quote
Alan Lightman
Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people. View quote
Alex Haley
Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner. View quote
François Gautier
Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us. View quote
Harpo Marx
The roots of defeat which were put down by some of the elements of our party in the two or three years after 1980 made victory difficult to achieve. View quote
Neil Kinnock
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. (António Lobo Antunes)
Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
Ideas are the roots of creation. View quote
Ernest Dimnet
Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight. View quote
Colum McCann
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. View quote
John F. Kennedy