William P. Young Quotes

You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.

William P. Young

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• The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Smile
  • Flower
  • Smiles

• I feel totally French – I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Deny

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • School
  • High
  • Forever

• My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Up
  • You
  • Fly

• What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Small
  • Space

• No one today knows what is indecent.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Today
  • Knows
  • Indecent

• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Flower

• I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Music
  • Father
  • Roots

• It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?

  

  Kate Bush
  • American
  • Think
  • English

• As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of our folk arts. We can do this if we are true to our roots and strive for excellence.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Up
  • True
  • Down

• We mustn't hesitate to cut corruption at its roots.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Roots
  • Corruption
  • Cut

• I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Roots
  • Blues
  • Stick

• I'm still true to my Southern roots.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • True
  • Roots
  • Southern

• Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

  

  Abdul Qadeer Khan
  • Trying
  • Help
  • Violence

• The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Forever
  • Flower
  • Once

• The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Flower

• I always thought if I had a band it would have the energy and feel of early Police, since that's where my roots are, and then the harmonies of the Eagles, and the technique of King Crimson or something like that. Fast, up-tempo, beat-the-hell-out-of-the-drums, because that's my style. Energy, but sophistication, rhythmically and melodically.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Band

• Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Action
  • Courage

• I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Way
  • Looks
  • Difficult

• People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Good
  • Change

• There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Purpose
  • Silent
  • Perseverance

• In many ways, the church seems to hate evil more than it loves good or even God.

  

  Carlton Pearson
  • Way
  • Hate
  • Church

• You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.

  

  William P. Young
  • Knows
  • Flower
  • Roots