Quotes About Root

It's the Smear! He's here! Never fear! He's holding root beer!

My quarter teaspoon of dried turmeric recommendation translates into about a quarter inch of fresh turmeric root. The roots are about two inches long, cost about ten cents each, and can last for weeks in the fridge or basically forever in the freezer.

The first time I saw my father-in-law's cotton, I though of the Original Sin, gardening being the root of the South's downfall.

The root of all sin is found in the runaway indulgence of God-given desires.

Etymology, n.: Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term "etymology" was formed from the Latin "etus" ("eaten"), the root "mal" ("bad"), and "logy" ("study of"). It meant "the study of things that are hard to swallow."

There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.

Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.

The word 'education' comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion, from the Latin root prefix in meaning in and the stem trudo, I thrust.

Some people claim that expectation is the source of all misery, while others claim that attachment is the root cause.

The Bible: Money is the root of all evil. Again the Bible: Give 10% of your income to the church. Is money good or evil? Should we pursue it or not, otherwise where will this 10% come from?!

The fact that the Vatican has its own banking system proves that money is not the root of all evil.

She sees it all in that instant, the shape of the tree of power. Root to tip, branching and re-branching. Of course, the old tree still stands. There is only one way, and that is to blast it entirely zo pieces.

But she hadn't been able to take root. She'd remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. She'd remembered how to kill and how to hate, and she'd forgotten how to grow.

A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.

A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside.

Reactionary thought has been accused of irrationalism because it refuses to sacrifice the canons of reason to the prejudices of the day. The root of reactionary thought is not distrust of reason but distrust of the will.

Human competitiveness and territoriality were often at the root of particularly horrible fashions in oppression.

We are all Godseed, but no more or less so than any other aspect of the universe, Godseed is all there is—all that Changes. Earthseed is all that spreads Earthlife to new earths. The universe is Godseed. Only we are Earthseed. And the Destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.

It lies at the foundations of everything, it is the fifth element, the quintessence.

On every stem, on every leaf ... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.

The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery

He pretended they were someone else's parents or recently released patients from a mental hospital who had arbitrarily chosen to root for him. Mainly, he figured they were a little goofy, but that was okay.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.