"The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done."
Read quote
3 likes
Roots quotes
Roots
1.9K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Roots
Browse quotes that often appear alongside roots — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Roots quotes (page 31 of 96)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,- if I could have been invisible, all the better. . . to be in the midst of it, and rejoice and wonder at it, and help it if I could, - happier if it needed no help of mine, - this was the essential love of Nature in me, this the root of all that I have usefully become, and the light of all that I have rightly learned."
Read quote
3 likes
"In a really equal democracy, every or any section would be represented, not disproportionately, but proportionately. ... Unless they are, there is not equal government, but a government of inequality and privilege: one part of the people rule over the rest: there is a part whose fair and equal share of influence in the representation is withheld from them, contrary to all just government, but, above all, contrary to the principle of democracy, which professes equality as its very root and foundation."
Read quote
3 likes
"I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me."
Read quote
3 likes
"We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally."
Read quote
3 likes
"As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it."
Read quote
3 likes
"But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters."
Read quote
3 likes
"I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.'"
Read quote
3 likes
"I have never really thought of him as a person, either.... A guy whose strings were broken, who didn’t feel the root of his leaves of grass connected to the field, a guy who was cracked. Like me."
Read quote
3 likes
"What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the next levels, including also the scientific knowledge."
Read quote
3 likes
"True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root."
Read quote
3 likes
"My roots were pretty far removed from high income. It's interesting to be back there at the level of income I have now, at this stage in my life."
Read quote
3 likes
"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."
Read quote
3 likes
"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."
Read quote
3 likes
"Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath."
Read quote
3 likes