Quotes about Roots

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.

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.

We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation.

Our roots say we're sisters, our hearts say we're friends.

I give you the desert chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity. The Universe is God's. It is one thing, a wholeness against which all separations may be identified.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.