773 Quotes About Roots

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized...

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare, Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste, As if it would each root's lost strength repair.

Hope and purpose in this world is living as best as you can and maybe having life that gives back. But simply giving back isn't purpose; it's a branch of purpose, but it is not the trunk or root of the tree.

The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.

I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform.

At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.