logo

Quotes About Rooted

I sang that tree's glory, its solid, unhurried purity, its slow beauty. Oh, that I could be like it, rooted to the ground but with my every hand raised up to God in praise!
~ Yann Martel
Awareness of the world begins with your feet, he believes.
~ Christopher McDougall
Great poetry is capable of dealing with erotic passion, but it has to be the very greatest to represent that deeper and more tortuous love -- more rooted, more absolute -- which we devote to our children, and which it is so hard to talk about.
~ Claudio Magris
Lucifer likes to have fun, but we need to make sure that he's also rooted in a proper journey. For the first few episodes after a pilot, you're just trying to establish your world and the starting points for your characters. But I feel like, as the stakes went up, the 'Lucifer' veneer got less and less.
~ Tom Ellis
contemporary neonativism is rooted in an epistemological framework entirely different from Piaget's epistemological framework.
~ Unknown
threefold purity—no big deal about the doer, no big deal about the action, no big deal about the result. This joyful exertion is rooted in no expectation, no ambition, no hope of fruition.
~ Pema Chodron
the progressive search for demons no matter the facts or circumstances is rooted in a need to see themselves as saviors of people so "oppressed" they are unable to lift themselves up.
~ David Horowitz
I still live in the same place I've lived all my life.
~ Susan Straight
Pride is such a weak emotion rooted in self pity, vanity, and distortion of value, how can you ever value another or humbly value life.
~ Unknown
No matter how beautiful the shoes are, they still have to go on the ground.
~ Unknown
I am rooted, but I flow.
~ Virginia Woolf
Patriotism is merely deeply-rooted government brand loyalty.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Father's ideals became part of me and still are today. His reserve, deeply rooted liberal views, his provocative humour, his passion for work and love of risk are also mine.
~ Niki de St. Phalle
Since childhood, I have always rooted for the villains. I would wish the villain beat the hero and get away with everything.
~ Chunky Pandey
He was suffering from wanderlust, complicated by the tension of knowing that he was rooted to this town by something as simple as his name.
~ Jodi Picoult
Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.
~ Joe Hill
People in Liverpool don't move very far, you know.
~ Ringo Starr
The persons I speak of are not thoughtless about religion: they think a good deal about it. They are not ignorant of religion: they know the outlines of it pretty well. But their great defect is that they are not "rooted and grounded" in their faith. Too often they have picked up their knowledge second hand, from being in religious families, or from being trained in religious .ways, but have never worked it out by their own inward experience
~ J.C. Ryle
What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions … and yet which still remains a context.
~ Jacques Derrida
If we live rooted and established in His love, we don't just have knowledge of His love in our minds, but it becomes a reality that anchors us.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Faith is like a tender plant, rooted in Christ alone, watered by the Spirit and the Word, strengthened by the winds of adversity and the sunshine of blessing.
~ Anne Graham Lotz
If your faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.
~ Billy Graham
Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.
~ Emily Greene Balch
We remember the truth because it has a name, is rooted in the past, but a makeshift lie is quickly forgotten.
~ Marcel Proust