Pope Paul VI Quotes

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.

The lotus comes from the murkiest water but grows into the purest thing.

A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.

I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.

A lasting architecture has to have roots.

I would say, my influences go back a little further than some folks. I think what your influences are can certainly help you. It's like a tree with really deep roots; the firmer they're planted in the ground, the better foundation you have to build upon.

We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.

A tree without roots will fall over, whereas a tree with roots eventually becomes part of a forest.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

Being an American is a state of mind, and to be in a family is to feel the power of belonging, the power of your roots. Family is a tree, the strength of a tree, the roots, the leaves, the past and the present, the future, the fruits, the seeds.

Without history one remains always a child.

We will burn the old grass and the new will grow.

The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.

You can't build a future if you don't have a past.

Four legs on a chair, to me, represent a strong foundation and always knowing where I come from.

I think that our comfort is in our history.

I'm like a tree. My leaves might change color, but my roots are the same.

It's important to evolve without ever straying too far from your roots and what established you.

Sometimes when really terrible things happen, something beautiful emerges out of it.

I love that my friends understand that I'm not gonna forget about the old me.