Roots Quotes
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The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.
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Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.
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To be fearless no matter what happens-that is the root of true happiness. To move forward resolutely regardless of what lies in store-that is the spirit, the resolve, that leads to human victory.
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Live in your roots, not in your branches.
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I think if you forget your roots you're lost. It helps to ground you.
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Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.
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The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.
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I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.
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I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising.
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I'm very attached to my roots, but I feel Italian more than anything else.
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
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God's goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness.
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He's just a great guy. He's so humble. You're very proud of the fact that his roots are here in Boise, not just Timberline High School. He's classy in the way he carries himself.
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Every time someone asks me where I'm from, I'm not sure how to answer that question... so I say I have no roots.
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That's when America soars, when we look out for one another and we take care of each other, when we root for one another's success, when we strive to do better and to be better than the generation that came before us and try to build something better for generations to come, that's why we do what we do. That's the whole point of public service.
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No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.
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They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!
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Being the governor of a state is a more pivotal job in the future. I do indeed hope there's someone that says, "I'm going to go to Washington, try to get back to our constitutional roots, devolve the centralization of government back to the states." So why would you want to be up there if the action is down here in the states?
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Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance climbed up through my conscious mind as if suddenly the roots I had left behind cried out to me, the land I had lost with my childhood - and I stopped, wounded by the wandering scent.
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If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.
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If your motivation for acquiring money or success comes from a non-supportive root such as fear, anger or the need to 'prove' yourself, your money will never bring you happiness.
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God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.
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Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.
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Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more than the total weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
