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Punishment is the root of violence on our planet. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

We combine our strength from the roots of our origin. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Profound music leads us beyond language ... to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence. — Cornel West

Discipline comes from the same root word as disciple, and implies patience and teaching on our part. It should not be done in anger, — Lynn G. Robbins

To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots. — Richard Mabey

Our situation is intolerable, but what's worse
is to sit here and do nothing. — Rita Dove

To my grandmothers,
for tilling the soil in which we grew and for watering our roots with stories of all the old things — Lisa Wingate

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world. — Eric Hoffer

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground. — William James

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity. — Henry David Thoreau

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual. — Stephen Covey

Shallow breathing is the root of all evil but conscious deep breathing restores and secures our souls. — Desmond Green

We are going back to our roots by cultivating new unsigned talent who otherwise might go unnoticed. — Tommy Hilfiger

I'm a huge NBA fan and watch many games each year. Following any sport is kind of bringing us back to our tribal roots. — John Mackey

It is not our job to remain whole.
We came to lose our leaves
Like the trees, and be born again,
Drawing up from the great roots. — Robert Bly

To succeed, we have to be the party of change, we have to root out corruption in our own ranks and we have to be the party of solutions. — Bobby Jindal

Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and "ideas," and to plant their roots firmly in the earth. — William Vogt

Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after. — William Hazlitt

Nobody can ask us to abjure our fascist roots. — Gianfranco Fini

Our virtues and view spring from one root. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions. — Lee L Jampolsky

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification. — Joseph Campbell

Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us. — David Steindl-Rast

Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that. — Ally Condie

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots. The other is wings. — Hodding Carter

Each of us encounters many diverse experiences that make us grow and transform, but we seek to return to our roots, which is quietude. — Kilroy J. Oldster

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. — John F. Kennedy

Our loss put six feet under ground
Is measured by the magnolia's root;
Our gain's the intellectual sound
Of death's feet round a weedy tomb. — Allen Tate

We all fall off our horse but how many get back on? It's frightening to realize our vulnerability after a fall but we must put fear aside to progress. — Daria Hosseinyoun

Our root fantasy is that "I" am real and that it's possible for "me" to be happy. — Sakyong Mipham

To minimize hatred and oppression, our love roots must be deep and solid. — Auliq Ice

For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green over a heart in ruins. — Victor Hugo

Love is the earth that holds our roots in place. Without it, there's nothing to keep us from falling over. — Saira Shah

Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being. — Victor Hugo

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth. — Khalil Gibran

Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs
positive or negative
are all extensions of how we define and use power. — Caroline Myss

If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Heaven has become for us the cosmic space of the physicists ... But 'the heart glows,' and a secret unrest gnaws at the roots of our being. — C. G. Jung

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it grace. — John Piper

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

The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives
the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods. — Thich Nhat Hanh

If I were in politics, and if you ever get me in the White House, trust me, there's a big change coming. What happened to America? We lost our roots. — Phil Robertson

The frying pan you should give to your enemy. Food should not be prepared in fat. Our bodies are adapted to a stone age diet of roots and vegetables. — Denis Parsons Burkitt

Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws. — Charles Kingsley

Family is the root of all that is good in our lives, and I am so grateful for mine. — Ivana Trump

I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side. — Billie Jean King

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure. — Charles De Gaulle

Our love is principle, and has its root
In reason, is judicious, manly, free. — William Cowper

to know your past is to know your future. Where lies the strength of the stem and the fruits of the branches when the roots are rotten? — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Let's not grow with our roots in the ground. — Criss Jami

The world is not static, and if the roots of our perceptions, traditions, hold static, then we are doomed, I say, into destructive dogma. — R.A. Salvatore

You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the road. The roots are deep inside us, it's the rhythm in our soul. — Brian Wilson

Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope. — Toni Morrison

We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution. — Roger Mahony

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

Our gracious God, we need the ministry of the Spirit of God within our lives so that Your Word may take root within us. — Alistair Begg

The fruits of our actions are always interconnected with the roots of honesty towards our inner self. The liar is an enemy to himself — Robin Sacredfire

The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done. — John Oates

Knowledge is a strong stream of water turned on us through a hose. It disturbs our roots — O. Henry

Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools. — Helen DeWitt

Life outside is changing our world. We are losing our culture, loosing our roots. How can a living thing grow if its roots are cut? — Sherry Shahan

Our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth. — Maria Montessori

Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives. — George A. Sheehan

Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past. — Philip Carr-Gomm

We have our roots in country, and that's our foundation, but we pull from a lot. — Dave Haywood

There are moments when we have to return to our roots. — Rob Bell

This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely. — Alan Hirsch

We were like trees with nowhere to sink our roots, Joseph and I. Instead of finding the ground we wound them around each other. — Lauren Nicolle Taylor

We're all where we come from. We all have our roots. — John Guare

When we as a nation, strive in vain to preserve the beauty of our national life, forgetting our biblical roots, we are doomed. — Richard Halverson

The wind drops us where it will and there we have the choice to either fight our fate or grow roots and bloom. — Jayne Castel

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality. — Bell Hooks

Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed. — Satish Kumar

After the fact, our hearts always go out to the fallen Goliaths. Yet we invariably root for their Davids. Until they're winners. — Malcolm Forbes

There where our Roots are the Chances more related to Something.
Jan Jansen — Jan Jansen

We are creatures of air, Our roots in dreams And clouds, reborn In flight. — Salman Rushdie

Lets toil under the sun to build poles of love. And let our roots be planted like strong trees that strong winds can't move. — Auliq Ice

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable. — Matthieu Ricard

Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts — Namkhai Norbu

If we are the trees, words are our roots; and we grow as we write — Munia Khan

We never leave our roots. We just grow new branches. — Audrey Meadows

Roots, I sometimes think, are a conservative myth, designed to keep us in our places. — Salman Rushdie

The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting. — Sanford Meisner

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.
Deborah Norville — Deborah Norville

So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe. — John Milton

Look lak we done run our conversation from grass roots tuh pine trees. — Zora Neale Hurston

Our hands imbibe like roots, so i place them on what is beautiful in this world. And I fold them in prayer, and they draw from the heavens light — Francis Of Assisi

Remember, we without our roots and branches cannot be saved. — Quentin L. Cook

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

I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again. — John Green

God's goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness. — William Tyndale