Rooted Quotes

Spirituality is rooted in desire. We long for something we can neither name nor describe, but which is no less real because of our inability to capture it with words.

Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.

The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.

Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.

It's rooted in my blood to consume you and be consumed by you. To protect you. To please you, in every way. To make you shiver when I touch you. To cause your heart to beat faster.

History is rooted in the future

Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.

The new update of 2014-2015 is, of course, the attack of ISIS. But this is rooted in recent history. It is the direct result of all the politics that came into Iraq with the occupation.

No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death.

What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.

It's as if tendencies that seem most deeply rooted in our minds, most private and singular, have come in as spores on the prevailing wind, looking for any likely place to land, any welcome.

It was interesting to have humanoid villains that were rooted in our three-dimensional reality... or four dimensional reality, I'm not sure which!

All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place.

Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.

There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.

Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.

I grew up playing classical guitar, so everything I learned was rooted in technique, form, presentation.

In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling. . . .

I am a Christian. So, I have a deep faith. So I draw from the Christian faith...So, I'm rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place.

What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us.

I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Not to sound egotistic, but I've gotten kind of good at it. It's something that came naturally to me, but my rapping is rooted in my writing.

I'd say my sound's really rooted in Jamaica and Barbados heritage , infused with just me growing up in Brooklyn, really, and being an American kid.

We all need basic human values rooted in trust and affection.

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with its essence.

I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.

America is not an ethnostate. We are not rooted in blood and soil.

People only rooted for the underdog in movies, not in middle school.

All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.

I grew up thirty miles down the highway in San Marcos, and I've still got family there, so I guess I'm pretty well rooted.

Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted in the freedom of all.

Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.

We recognize that stare decisis embodies an important social policy that represents an element of continuity in law and is rooted in the psychological need to satisfy reasonable expectations.

There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.

The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.

A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.

To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God's infinite love, to that degree can we let go of our need to judge.

I feel like my political beliefs are rooted in the conservatism that I was raised with.

Donald was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. He said, back in 2006, gee, I hope it does collapse because then I can go in and buy some and make some money. Well, it did collapse.

I think that like most people I know, I have a range of views, but they are rooted in my values and experience.

We still have gaps that are rooted in gender inequality. Certainly we have discrimination against the LGBT community.

We have gaps that are rooted in systemic racism.

In fact, Donald [Trump] was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis.

Even my nighttime dreams are very, very rooted in reality. They just start to become surreal, little by little.

I myself, in my heart, say that people should have all the children they want. But it's a mistaken idea, like many of our ideas that go back thousands of years, and it must be rooted out.

I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.