Rooted Quotes - Page 18

• If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Should Have

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.117

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• Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.

  Phyllis George

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fun

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• Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

  Joyce Meyer

  Overcoming, Littles, Problem

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• Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, Pain, Ocean

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 04, 2012

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• Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I love having the memories of living in many places.

  Frances Mayes

  Memories, Forever, Spots

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• The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Nature, Philosophical, Animal

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• The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.

  Stanley Tucci

  Character, Reality, Blessing

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• I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable environment. No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid. In my own work this has been particularly true.

  Ernest Lawrence

  Science, Past, Achievement

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• I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

  Vikram Seth

  Thinking, Tree

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• Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Book, Want, Film

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• Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Motherhood, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.159, A&C Black

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• The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

  Bell Hooks

  Country, Rights, Justice

  "A chat with the Author of 'All About Love: New Visions'". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. February 17, 2000.

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• Glam culture is ultimately rooted in obsession, and those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour are masters of its history. Or, to put it more elegantly, we are librarians.

  Lady Gaga

  Culture, Loyal, Obsession

  "Lady Gaga With Three Heads Covers V Magazine, First Fashion Column Inside" by Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2011.

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• All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.

  Michael Chekhov

  Artist, Desire, Bears

  Michael Chekhov, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ (1963). “To the director and playwright”

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• The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

  Saul Alinsky

  World, Fantasy, Judgment

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.26, Vintage

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• I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.

  Joanna Newsom

  Get Away, Folks, I Can

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Self, Preparation

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.23, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.

  Vijay Mallya

  Opportunity, Indian

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• The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

  Thom Mayne

  Thinking, Ideas, Architecture

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• Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment when the hours of the day-light and the hours of darkness at last draw parallel and then the light finally and triumphantly wins out. Thus Easter is always fixed as the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. It's a cosmic, solar, and lunar event as deeply rooted in religious traditions originating from sun-god worship as one could conceivably imagine.

  Tom Harpur

  Religious, Easter, Spring

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• It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

  Simone Weil

  Nature, Light, Sky

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• The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.

  Erich Fromm

  Happiness, Capacity To Love, Growth

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• Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

  Robert Southey

  Blessed, Men, Wind

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• When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.

  Teresa of Avila

  Evil, Water, Soul

  St. Teresa of Avila (2012). “Interior Castle”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

  Wall, Reality, Haiti

  "An Exclusive Interview With Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide". Interview with Nicolas Rossier, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2010.

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