Root Quotes

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

The representation of the tabernacle arose out of the temple of Solomon as its root, in dependence on the sacred ark, for which there is early testimony, and which in the time of David, and also before it, was sheltered by a tent.

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.

Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.

At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.

The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

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

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.

At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

So after being with somebody for any number of days like that, you can't help but feel for them. You can't help them, but you certainly can root for them.

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.

I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things.

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

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

A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level.

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.