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Quotes About Root

I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog.
~ Judd Apatow
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
~ William Wordsworth
The root of all true greatness, is humility.
~ C. JoyBell C.
When I talk about the Spurs in different states, people don't get it. But it's a cool team to root for. I've been a fan since I was young.
~ Michelle Beadle
I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.
~ Paul Tagliabue
When money, rather than innovation or value, is your competitive advantage, that's when things get boring and stagnant, and monopolies take root.
~ Hank Green
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
~ Henry Adams
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
~ Francis Bacon
Direct me, gods, whose changes are all holy,To where it flickers deep in grass, the moly:Cool flesh of magic in each leaf and shoot,From milky flower to the black forked root.
~ Thom Gunn
Love and charity share the same root word (caritas). How is that possible, when everything in our recent history suggest they cannot coexist, that they are antiethical, that if you put the two of them together in a sack they would bite and scratch and scream, until one of them is torn apart?
~ Nick Hornby (How To Be Good)
Can't do much about it as person's the root of personal. We can't stop being people, or it wins.
~ Nora Roberts
Some argue against the Rapture by saying the word doesn't even appear in the Bible, but it does. As I've said, we have to read it in the Vulgate, the Latin version of the Bible. There the Greek word harpazo is translated rapiemur, the proper tense of rapio, the root of our English words "rapt" and "rapture.
~ Chuck Missler
Sound managerial decisions are at the very root of their impending fall from industry leadership.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
The World-Soul is sick, Harry, crazy-sick. And if we don't each do our part and try to get to the root of its pain and burn it out, then everything is for nothing.
~ Clive Barker
PACT: Preserving American Culture and Traditions. A solemn promise to root out any anti-American elements undermining the nation.
~ Celeste Ng
However, he expressed a conviction that, in order to take root in the West, the dharma needed to be taught free from cultural trappings and religious fascination.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or else we brood and too firmly root. Very few can step forward again and again in what amounts to veritable leaps into the void, where there are no ready holds, where little is familiar, where you get constantly stuck in the thickets of your uncertainties and fears.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
And yet there is not in France, with its rich variety of soil and climate, a blade, a leaf, a root, a sprig, a peppercorn, which will grow to maturity under conditions more certain than those that have produced this horror. Crush
~ Charles Dickens
Oftentimes the root of their marriage problems is found in some hostility they have been hauling around, sometimes since childhood.
~ Charles F. Stanley
It may be that our society is only passing through a period of ugly transition, but the present evil has its root deep down in the social organization, and springs from a diseased public opinion.
~ CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
What is poetry but impassioned truth — philosophy in its essence — the spirit of that bright consummate flower, whose root is in our bosoms?
~ Ebenezer Elliott
Evil seldom takes shape immediately. It is often little more than a whisper at first. A glance. A betrayal. But then it grows and takes root, still invisible, unnoticed. Only fairy tales give evil a proper shape.
~ Guillermo del Toro
What happens: events interiors, snatch them from the cradle, from the source. I want to watch watching arrive. I want to watch arrivances. I want to find the root of needing to eat. And taste it: work of sweat / sleep.
~ Helene Cixous
The fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason
~ James Patterson