Roots Quotes

• Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

  Sengcan

  Understanding, Return

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• Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.

  Paul Cezanne

  Expression, Depth, World

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• There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Baby, Children, Wings

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• I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

  Meera

  God, Found

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  Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography". Book by Victor Hugo, translated by Lorenzo O'Rourke, Funk & Wagnalls edition, 1907.

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• A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

  Marcus Garvey

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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• A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

  Amelia Earhart

  Kindness, Spring, Compassion

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• For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hard Times, Frustration, Rocks

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• Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

  Isabel Allende

  Country, People, Landscape

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• Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

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• Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves.

  Confucius

  Branches, Care, Take Care

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• I seem restless,
  but am deeply at ease.
  Branches tremble;
  the roots are still.

  Rumi

  Ease, Branches, Restless

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• Storms make trees take deeper roots.

  Dolly Parton

  Life, Strength, Depression

  Twitter post from Aug 31, 2009

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• I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

  Cesar Pelli

  Strong, Moving, Past

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• Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

  Jonas Salk

  Inspirational, Family, Children

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• Though leaves are many, the root is one.

  William Butler Yeats

  "The Coming of Wisdom with Time" l. 1 (1910)

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• In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it's what's under the ground that creates what's above the ground. That's why placing your attention on the fruits that you have already grown is futile. You cannot change the fruits that are already hanging on the tree. You can, however, change tomorrow's fruits. But to do so, you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots.

  T. Harv Eker

  Change, Tree, Secret

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from May 27, 2012

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• Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

  Frank A. Clark

  Encouragement, Rain, Hard Work

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• Surround yourself with positive people. Also, be a positive person. Root for people. Somebody else's success is not your failure.

  Bill Burr

  People, Surround Yourself, Persons

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of the arts lies in the recognition that art is power, an instrument of communion between the self and all that is important, all that is sacred.

  Peter London

  Song, Art, Lying

  Peter London (1989). “No More Secondhand Art”, p.27, Shambhala Publications

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• We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.

  John Guare

  Where We Come

  "John Guare: Strangers in the Dark". Interview with Tana Wojczuk, www.guernicamag.com. March 19, 2012.

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• Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.

  Amy Carmichael

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  Amy Carmichael (1955). “Edges of His Ways: Daily Devotional Notes”, p.30, CLC Publications

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• The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Positive, Thank You

  Dalai Lama (1994). “The Path to Enlightenment”, p.105, Shambhala

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• When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wall, Positive Thinking

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• 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

  Family, Inspiring, Children

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