Quotes About Root

Friendship supplied the root-- It was planted years ago-- To bring me flowers and seed Through the long drought

Her nose wrinkled and she cast him a cautious but hopeful look. "Perhaps your seed has already taken root. We should wait to see if that is the case. 'Tis truth you've no skill at loving, and 'tis obvious I've none as well.

I don't feel like a hero, said Carlos. That's okay, said Mal with a rueful smile. Remember what the professor said? We're the villains you root for in the story.

The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

I'm resigned to the fact that I'm gonna be the person in shows that people hate and dislike and root against. And I'm OK with it.

The beautiful thing about 'American Gods' is that it's very simple at its core.

The word amateur comes from the Latin root meaning to love.

I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love.

The actual meaning of the word Witch is linked to "wisdom" and is the same root as "to have wit" and "to know." It comes from the Anglo-Saxon wicce (f) or wicca (m) meaning "wise one," witches being both female and male. On

When an abuse has once taken root everything is arranged on the assumption of its continuance.

Song on Applying War Paint: At the center of the earth I stand, Behold me! At the wind center I stand, Behold me! A root of medicine Therefore I stand, At the wind center I stand.

There is a difference between sin and sins. Sin is the root; sins are the fruit.

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included. It's like the root of a tree. All a tree's fruit and flowers, branches and leaves depend on its root. If you nourish its root, a tree multiplies. If you cut its root, it dies. Those who understand the mind reach enlightenment with minimal effort.

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.

Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. The more violently you hack at the other person, the more violently you hack at yourself. It can often be fatal. But it is not easy to dispose of. Please be careful, Mr.Okada. It is very dangerous. Once it has taken root in your heart, hatred is the most difficult think in the world to shake off.

Unless you find the fundamental cause and treat that, the same problem will surface later on in a different form.

too many trivial projects are like seeds sown on stony ground—they might sprout, but they do not take root and grow into anything useful.

I root for the Yankees, so I like to play for a first-place team.

Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.

I think there is no better training than being onstage because here's the thing: the theater requires you to act with your whole body. I think acting with your whole body gives you a root, and you can build from there.

the root of all our suffering in samsara is ignorance.

the only thing that Tonglen could harm is the one thing that has been harming you the most: your own ego, your self-grasping, self-cherishing mind, which is the root of suffering.

The one who did not understood that his time's root supports his life tree was born in vain.

TRUTH #2: Desire is the root of suffering. It is the desire to achieve, to live, to make things tolerable and pleasant, and even better, that creates untold pain in the lives of men and women. Want nothing, and you shall not be disappointed.