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Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.

True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.

Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.

The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is quiet because he is not moved, not because he wills to be quiet. . . . Joy does all things without concern. For emptiness, stillness, tranquillity, tastelessness, silence, and non-action are the root of all things.

The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past.

Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use is only for the time being. Once you have learned the quality, then you need not do any particular meditation, then the meditation has to spread all over your life. Only when you are meditative twenty-four hours a day then can you attain, then you have attained. Even sleeping is meditation.

Now the autumn shudders_x000D__x000D_In the rose's root._x000D__x000D_Far and wide the ladders_x000D__x000D_Lean among the fruit._x000D__x000D_Now the autumn clambers_x000D__x000D_Up the trellised frame,_x000D__x000D_And the rose remembers_x000D__x000D_The dust from which it came._x000D__x000D_Brighter than the blossom_x000D__x000D_On the rose's bough_x000D__x000D_Sits the wizened orange,_x000D__x000D_Bitter berry now;_x000D__x000D_Beauty never slumbers;_x000D__x000D_All is in her name;_x000D__x000D_But the rose remembers_x000D__x000D_The dust from which it came.

The last time I had this much fun was a root-canal operation.

The roots and herbes beaten and put into new ale or beer and daily drunk, cleareth, strengtheneth and quickeneth the sight of the eyes.

You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these are only illusions of permanence. They know even less than you do.

Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the fact that we who are christian are heirs to a body-despising, woman-fearing, sexually repressive religious tradition. If we are to continue as members of the church, we must challenge and transform it at the root. What is required is more than simply a "reformation." I am speaking of revolutionary transformation. Nothing less will do.

It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their roots and their identity. If you take away the things that they have been used to see and will be expecting to see, you may, in a way, as well take their eyes.

It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized the bulk of the world's people but they colonized the interpretation of history itself. Human history was rewritten to favor them at the expense of other people. The roots of modern racism can be traced to this conquest and colonization.

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

I've had some Democrat African-American leaders tell me they're really not all that comfortable with Obama as the lead at the MLK festivities 'cause he's not down for the struggle. He does not have that in his roots.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.

I supported this bill. I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived here even though sometime back they may have entered illegally.