Rooted Quotes

Whenever I see you, I am overcome with the urge to be rooted within you, to be buried deep so your body can nourish me.

Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.

Hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "think positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism, is rooted in unalloyed reality.

All of my work in some way or another speaks to political issues according to the upbringing that I had, which was deeply rooted in principles.

I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.

Some trees are too deeply rooted to move ... And if they are uprooted, they will die.

Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.

So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.

As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I've always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs.

When you are a filmmaker, you need to be rooted, because committing yourself to producing or directing a film is a good three-year process.

I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.

What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out

What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.

Many people's unhappiness is rooted in the habitual role they play. While our family role may have made sense growing up, it often wreaks havoc in our adult lives.

When I grew up, all of our news, weather, and sports came from America. The people where I grew up rooted for American teams as opposed to Canadian teams.

Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.

Service is not possible unless it is rooted in love orahimsa.

Most of the lyrics are rooted in my own experiences. But there is some sheer fabrication.

Yes, but the thing is my influences are so rooted in afro-American culture especially that it's quite sad to not enjoy the same success because the influences are so strong from there.

All of the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in the making of assumptions and taking things personally. The whole world of control between humans is based on that.

Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.

I come from a land where the idea of the whole world being one family is rooted in our ethos 'vasudhaiva kutumbakam'.

Works of Art are meant to connect the human heart to inspiration, for cosmic consciousness to grow in the Supreme Reality rooted in Life and Being.

But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.

Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.

The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], which is deeply rooted in human nature.

Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.

Thanks to being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely human abilities.

Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone

You become that which you think you are. Or, it is not that you become it, but that the idea gets very deeply rooted and that's what all conditioning is.

No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.

In this life, your so-called ordinary life, you must be rooted; and in your inner space, in the spiritual life, you must be weightless and flying and flowing, floating.

A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

My stand-up is far more rooted in reality than my Twitter.

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.

Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically.

the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle

Being 'one flesh' in marriage means that the relationship is not the source of security, affirmation, control, or value. Those issues of identity need to be rooted in Christ.

The best movies are rooted in reality.

Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.

America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music.

Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.

All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.

Abundance is rooted in community, not individualism. Abundance is what is before our eyes, but we cannot see when we are blinded by greed.