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What a miracle life is and how alike are all souls when they send their roots down deep and meet and are one!
— Nikos Kazantzakis
Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Focus on faith and grow your roots strong and deep so no one can make you believe in something that is not good for your soul.
— Molly Friedenfeld
Dig down, fly high, remember where you want to go, and one day you'll get there: Roots + Wings + Dreams=Home!
— Blue Balliett
I liked to refer to myself as bougavian. Slightly bougie, but I was not one to easily forget my bird roots.
— Nicole Falls
One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.
— Desmond Tutu
The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Faith is not by wishful thinking, it is what takes root in the heart and shows in one's actions.
— Sayyid Qutb
One avoids becoming a Tolkien clone precisely by returning to the same roots that inspired The Lord of the Rings.
— Michael Moorcock
Our virtues and view spring from one root.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
One of the things I like about Cyber World is that it shows cyberpunk has left its heteronormative boy's club roots behind in the dust.
— Jason Heller
The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.
— Saib Tabrizi
That was the marvelous thing about going back to one's roots; there was no need for explanation.
— Alexander McCall Smith
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots. The other is wings.
— Hodding Carter
Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.
— Billy Corgan
A small tree with deep roots stands better in turbulence than a large one with shallow roots.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.
— Confucius
God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.
— Theodore Roethke
Though leaves are many, the root is one.
— William Butler Yeats
Suffering has many faces. If we discover the roots of one suffering, we are at the same time discovering the roots of others.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Nothing ever comes to an end. Wherever one has sunk roots that emanate from one's best or truest self, one will always find a home.
— Liv Ullmann
No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.
— Van Wyck Brooks
Tofu is the root of all evil, and there's only one thing that can change a man's mind, and that's a modified Uzi with an extra-long clip.
— Robert Downey Jr.
Putting one's parents out to pasture in a nursing home has very deep historical roots in Western Europe.
— Francis Fukuyama
You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.
— Henning Mankell
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
— Francis Bacon
Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality.
— Bharati Mukherjee
If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do.
— Mark Batterson
On one of the right-side-up pages show wrote, with some difficulty, Know what roots know: there is only one tree.
— Katherine Catmull
Especially at a time when one's life was new, roots helped.
— Barbara Delinsky
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on.
— Gloria Gaither
The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.
— Ramakrishna
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Legal plunder has two roots: One of them, as I have said before, is in human greed; the other is in false philanthropy.
— Frederic Bastiat
Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
My hair is an untidy bob. I am very dark, but I embellish the roots because I am white in one clump.
— Erin O'Connor
The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.
— Sally Hawkins
Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil
— Christopher Hitchens