Quotes about Roots

if you focus on the fruit and ignore the root, the tree will die, but if you continue to care for the root and focus on your culture, process, people, and purpose, then you'll always have a great supply of fruit.

The rich world of his ancestors set the standards for Dietrich Bonhoeffer's own life. It gave him a certainty of judgment and manner that cannot be acquired in a single generation.

WIDESPREAD EVIL ALWAYS HAS ITS ROOTS IN WIDESPREAD DECEPTION

No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.

I am grateful that my childhood was spent in a spot where there were many trees, trees of personality, planted and tended by hands long dead, bound up with everything of joy or sorrow that visited our lives. When I have lived with a tree for many years it seems to me like a beloved human companion.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

The roots of envy always run deeper and wider than the relationship in which it surfaces.

Our hands imbibe like roots, so i place them on what is beautiful in this world. And I fold them in prayer, and they draw from the heavens light

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have.