Root Quotes

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.

Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

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

I like emotional horror. I don't like horror movies. I hate them. But, if you can make emotional horror movies, I'm in. If I can care and root for the main character, then I'm in.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind.

They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

The want of money is the root of all evil.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.

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.

Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory.

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

As far as Beau is concerned, we're on the same team, we root for each other. If my parts are slightly more attractive, or are perceived that way by others, he's very content.