Root Quotes

“Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.

Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.

Their language has been lost.

But not the gestures.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.”
― Maya Angelou

“The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.”
― Francis Bacon, The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon (Unexpurgated Edition)

“Why bother Her?’ What will change the echoes from my heart encapsulated into words for ears? Maybe the hope or belief that will be heard and felt by heart and soul from past lives, or will it become the dream of an actual one?”
― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

“It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“I follow Plato only with my mind
Pure beauty strikes me as a little thin
A little cold, however beautiful.

I am in love with what is mixed and impure
Doubtful, dark and hard to disencumber
I want beauty I must dig for, search for.

Pure beauty is beginning and not end
Begin with the sun and drop from sun to cloud
From cloud to tree, and from tree to earth itself

And deeper yet to the earth dark root.
I am in love with what resists my loving
With what I have to labor to make live.”
― Robert Francis

“It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.”
― Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“Secret is the mother of all lies.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Bloodraven is the root of all our woes, the white worm gnawimg at the heart of the realm.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

“The same cycle will continuously repeat until you commit yourself to healing the root of the issue.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Money is not the root of all evil. Poverty of the mind is.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Let's ask: which came first, the violence or the pain?”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“There is a wonder deeper than the pleasures, there is an awe far-reaching than the contempt and it is the root of the root of astonishment that gathers as an art on a canvas or as a song on the lips....”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“I no longer take any of the prescriptions from my doctors. The bulk of the prescriptions made me sicker, not better. I had seen numerous doctors in the previous two decades for my progressive deterioration in health. None of them prescribed Hawaii! On reflection, none of them were competent in diagnosing the root cause of my deteriorating health and prescribing the correct treatment. My story with the medical profession is common.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“When you analyze mass shootings, you generally find root cause analysis points to the government.”
― Steven Magee

“Root cause analysis requires an extensive examination of history.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“If you are displaying strange health conditions that your doctor cannot get to the bottom of, genetic health testing may assist you in finding the root cause.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“Most sicknesses can be reverse engineered back to their root cause.”
― Steven Magee

“The Kites that stay rooted to the base, with a string, fly high, against the winds; the ones without it just flow purposelessly with the winds, falling aimlessly. Keep that string of yourself rooted.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Slate

“A Kite that stays rooted to the base, with a string, flies high, against the winds; the one without it just flows purposelessly with the winds, falling aimlessly. A leader keeps that string rooted.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Modified Leadership

“And he said...

...sourness stems from the bitterness of the root.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Re-rooting yourself is an act of rebellious beauty....”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“Their beauty knows no barriers; they find fissures, cracks where they root and bloom.”
― David Passarelli, Mountain poems: Musings on stone, forest, and snow

“When agony is torn, flowers grow in the soul. That is how, roses open on the barren lands, for the roots find the water in the weeping nights.”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“In the roots is the story of ancestry, in the trunk, the story of storms endured, and in the branches, growth and expansion. Branching outward and skyward, the tree stands as a story of life.”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“In the roots is the story of ancestry, in the trunk, the story of storms endured, and in the branches, growth and expansion. Branching outward and skyward, the tree speaks the story of life.”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“Roots speak of the values to stand for, for they are the pillars of identity.”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“Let the earth speak to you, let the earth fill you in with its whispers.”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“The desire to please oneself is the root cause of assignment failure”
― Benjamin Suulola

“Rooted in silence, you are the soul who gazes and grows.
In a world of pleasures, you are the soul of eternal charm.
You who seek, in you, are the ageless light.”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee