The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most important….

I want to be reborn as a tree; that way I can plant my roots down, never move and can never be separated from the ones I love..

Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens..

A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind….

Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good..

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 r….

The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly….

It's very important to set your place in a concrete environment. I think Chekhov said that the important thing when you have a play or any kind of no….

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions..

The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost..

All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest,….

It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor….

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..

Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written..

For me, policy is best when connected to the roots, and roots are best when connected to policy. So I encourage you all to stay connected...and walk ….

We're actually saying, here's a principle that I'd like to arc toward. That's a very different role in life. I didn't expect [Barack] Obama to go to ….

The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [….

But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots a….

Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and loo….

Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error..

The root of prayer is interior silence..