Root Quotes

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Military action without politics is like a tree without a root.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil.

You were the leaves, basking in the sunlight. I was the root, growing in the darkness ~Danzo

Aggression is not the problem, is the outcome of a problem.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. It is futile to argue as to which leaf, which design of branches, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.

Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

There is a vast difference between treating effects and adjusting the cause.

We are children of the eternity: But this world is an out-birth out of the eternal; and its palpability taketh its original in the anger; the eternal nature is its root.

If we lose Kansas to freedom, an example will be set which will prove fatal to freedom in the end. We, therefore, in the language of the Bible, must "lay the axe to the root of the tree". Temporizing will not do longer; now is the time for decision—for firm, persistent, resolute action.

The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light.

A root, a stem, a leaf, some means of capturing sunlight and air and making food - in sum, a plant. The green substance of this earth, the chlorophyll, is all summed up in the plants. Without them we perish, all of us who are flesh and blood.

Since I was cut from the reedbed I have made this crying sound. Anyone separated from someone he loves understands what I say. Anyone pulled from a Source longs to go back.

Square root of a cosine? How is that ever going to be useful?

Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.

War is just an effect, not a cause.

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.

A child is the root of the heart.

No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart...Delve into yourself for a deep answer

It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.

Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated. He does not truly hate the fruit who delights in the root.

Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.