773 Quotes About Roots

  • Author Helen Lawrenson
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    In the final analysis, each of us is responsible for what we are. We cannot blame it on our mothers, who, thanks to Freud, have replaced money as the root of all evil.

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  • Author Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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    More hearts are breaking in this world of ours Than one would say. In distant villages And solitudes remote, where winds have wafted The barbed seeds of love, or birds of passage Scattered them in their flight, do they take root, And grow in silence, and in silence perish.

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  • Author Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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    Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing.

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  • Author James Lee
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    They grow in layers, like the spirit does. That's what Grandpa Sam used to say, anyway. You just got to keep the roots in a clear stream and not let nobody taint the water for you.

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  • Author Jill Lepore
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    Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

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  • Author Madeleine L'Engle
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    Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God who made us and not we ourselves. But we were made to be co-creators with our maker.

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