Root Quotes - page 3

Camera-Phones are at the root of the Citizen-Journalism revolution. (Philippe Kahn)
B17 is becoming more difficult to get because the FDA is cracking down on people dealing with B17 because, after all, doctors don't get any money off of this - it's a vitamin. And they [doctors] make a lot of money when you're sick, they don't make any money when you are well. The Bible says the love of money is the root of all evil. View quote
Kent Hovind
Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. View quote
John Donne
When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, it afterward persists by itself, needing no effort to maintain it since no one attacks it. "Those who at first rejected it as false come in the end to adopt it as accepted, and even those who still at the bottom of their hearts oppose it keep their views to themselves, taking great care to avoid a dangerous and futile contest. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
No matter how strong and dedicated a leader may be, he must find root and strength amongst the people. He alone cannot save a nation. He may guide, he may set the tone, he may dedicate himself and risk his life, but only the people may save themselves. View quote
Ferdinand Marcos
[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men astoundingly mediocre, and even less than mediocre. That is to say, modern science, the root and symbol of our actual civilization, finds a place for the intellectually commonplace man and allows him to work therein with success. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting. View quote
Cicero
Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man. View quote
Bruce Lee
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour. View quote
Ben Kingsley
Think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it. View quote
Philip Pullman
I have said this to explain the stanza that follows, in which the soul replies to those who call in question its holy tranquillity, who will have it wholly occupied with outward duties, that its light may shine before the world: these persons have no conception of the fibres and the unseen root whence the sap is drawn, and which nourish the fruit. (John of the Cross)
Hate is a fear, and fear is rot That cankers root and fruit alike, Fight cleanly then, hate not, fear not, Strike with no madness when you strike. View quote
Robert Graves
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity can help too. View quote
Willard van Orman Quine
Vainly you talk about voting it down. When you have cast your millions of ballots, you have not reached the evil. It has fastened its root deep into the heart of the nation, and nothing but God's truth and love can cleanse the land. We must change the moral sentiment. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge. View quote
Abraham Joshua Heschel
I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. View quote
Willa Cather
Fear is the root of all courage. View quote
Vivian Stanshall
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. (James Baldwin)
3. It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart. View quote
Ramana Maharshi
To succeed, we have to be the party of change, we have to root out corruption in our own ranks and we have to be the party of solutions. View quote
Bobby Jindal
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you. View quote
George Washington Carver
So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government. We cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now. View quote
Lucy Parsons