Rooted Quotes - Page 17

• 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

  Fun, Home, Differences

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• To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was heroic indeed. She could do so because her joy was rooted in the certitude of the ultimate goodness of God's loving plan for her. And though her faith in this truth did not touch her soul with consolation, she ventured to meet the challenges of life with a smile. Her one lever was her blind trust in God.

  Brian Kolodiejchuk

  Loving Life, Joy, Challenges

  Brian Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa (2012). “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The revealing private writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winner”, p.171, Random House

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• The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.

  Steve Earle

  Dust, Singers, Matter

  "What Makes Steve Earle Run". www.wsj.com. April 11, 2013.

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• No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.

  Dean Koontz

  Joy, World, Mystery

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.317, Bantam

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• Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Fear, Children, Yesterday

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Nature, Men

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.207, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Father, Believe

  Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.

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• For all its rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here; it is an outlandish place, a foreign home, a session in via to a better version of itself-and it is our glory to see it so and to thirst until Jerusalem comes home at last. We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Home, Cities, Lasts

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• He rooted for the Mets, he wore Foot of the Loom underwear, and he drove a Buick. His loyalties were carved in stone and he wasn't about to be impressed with some upstart of a toaster salesman who drove a Bonneville.

  Janet Evanovich

  Loyalty, Feet, Toasters

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual safety.

  Charles Robert Maturin

  Spiritual, Heart, Men

  Charles Robert Maturin (2016). “Melmoth the Wanderer”, p.321, Charles Robert Maturin

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• Whenever I see you, I am overcome with the urge to be rooted within you, to be buried deep so your body can nourish me.

  Jacquelyn Frank

  Overcoming, Body, Buried

  Jacquelyn Frank (2012). “Jacob: Number 1 in series”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.

  Teresa of Avila

  Men, Rivers, Water

  St. Teresa of Avila (1921). “The Interior Castle, or the Mansions”, p.17, Library of Alexandria

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• Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.

  Bell Hooks

  Use, Shapes, Wells

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• Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spiritual, Desire, Lord

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically.

  Sandra Bullock

  New Orleans, Community, Connections

  "Sandra Bullock: The Undercover Activist". Interview with Skip Hollandsworth, www.glamour.com. September 30, 2006.

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• Does the human intellect, or "reason," really spring us free from our inherence in the depths of this wild proliferation of forms? Or on the contrary, is the human intellect rooted in, and secretly borne by, our forgotten contact with the multiple nonhuman shapes that surround us on every hand?

  David Abram

  Spring, Animal, Hands

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• Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Tree, Vigor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1490, Delphi Classics

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• A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with us the reverse is true; our views change constantly; but our lunch does not change. Now, I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the garden, sometimes in bed, sometimes on the roof, sometimes in the top of a tree. Let them argue from the same first principles, but let them do it in a bed, or a boat, or a balloon.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Strong, Men, Garden

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• I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

  Al Gore

  Understanding, Human Nature, Optimist

  "Al Gore, ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Author And Global-Warming Expert, Talks About Change". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2013.

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• I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.

  Ryan Gosling

  Real, Thinking, Feelings

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• The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  World, Conflict, Mistrust

  "1967: Our rights have to be recognised" by Ismail Haniyeh, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2007.

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• Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Expression, Personality

  Hans Hofmann (1980). “Hans Hofmann, 1880-1966: A Special Exhibition of Major Paintings to Mark the Centennial of the Artist's Birth : December 13-January 13, 1981, André Emmerich Gallery, New York”

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• I don't believe in revenge. When people are bullies it's because of a deeper-rooted issue - either their family life is tough or they're being bullied by someone bigger than they are.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Revenge, Believe, Issues

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• Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.

  Barbara Jordan

  Views, People, Belief

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Political, Principles, Genius

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.6, Best Books on

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