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Quotes About Root

Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root.
~ Laozi
Fear is the root of my failure.
~ Unknown
For every effect there is a root cause. Find and address the root cause rather than try to fix the effect, as there is no end to the latter.
~ Unknown
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marriage is the natural means of forming a sphere, of taking root on the earth: it requires strength to do this without such an opening, very many have failed to this, and their imperfections have been in every one's way.
~ Margaret Fuller
A child is the root of the heart.
~ Unknown
The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.
~ Mark Kurlansky
Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it grace.
~ John Piper
All of the modern counseling vernacular is really not dealing with the root issue of idolatry. Someone or something's preeminent rather than God.
~ Mark Driscoll
Self-involvement is usually at the root of self-defeating behavior in relationships.
~ Mark Goulston
You've got to have a likeability factor, I think, in your comedy characters. If the guy's really, really funny but you just don't like him or her, then you're never going to root for them.
~ Rhys Darby
Repetition is the root of all software evil
~ Martin Fowler
For whatever has no root has no fruit, and although thinking, "I have come into being," it will perish by itself. So whatever does not exist will never exist.
~ Unknown
One who does not understand how the body that a person wears came to be will perish with it. "How will someone who does not know the son know the [father]? "All things are hidden from one who does not know the root of all things.
~ Unknown
The root of the matter? the thing I mean? is love, Christian 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.
~ Bertrand Russell
Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud And the sky of the sky of a tree called life; Which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide. And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart. I carry your heart. I carry it in my heart.
~ e e cummings
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.
~ Boris Pasternak
Love is the essence of human experience and emotion. It is at the root of all and everything we, as humans, do. Without love, what do we have to live for?
~ Robert Muller
There is no pleasure of life sprouting like a tree from one root but there is some pain joined to it; and again nature brings good out of evil.
~ Menander
The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.
~ Mencius
Levi's motives were never quite as obvious. There was an Old Testament ruthlessness about him, Shambler thought, something inscrutably tribal at the root.
~ Michael Crummey
If one is called to an unusual work in the Kingdom of God, it is necessary that the roots of pride be burned out as soon as possible, otherwise pride would destroy him. Pride is the death-bringer. It ruins everything, even the greatest works conceived with the highest ideals.
~ Unknown
Nevertheless I would be a hypocrite not to anticipate that the good intentions I brought to The Prince will also be the root of some other man's evil, if only because the way to the house of the Devil is the same for the good man and the bad - and the journey just as necessary for them both. The times change, but the nature of men does not.
~ Unknown