root Quotes and Quotations
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root Quotes and Quotations
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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. Mortimer Adler | top
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I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it. Julie Andrews | top
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. James A. Baldwin | top
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Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement. Joan Blades | top
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Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War. Breyten Breytenbach | top
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I believe it is important for the university to always remember its roots. Michael N. Castle | top
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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 importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it. Nick Clooney | top
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The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds. Thomas W. Higginson | top
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Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes. Maynard James Keenan | top
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I have seen the times when the grassroots has moved the Congress. We listen way more often to our constituents than the lobbyists. And the grassroots are going to have to do it. John Linder | top
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URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages. Ziggy Marley | top
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Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us. Harpo Marx | top
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Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence. Janet Napolitano | top
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I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan. Judd Nelson | top
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And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy. Denis Norden | top
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The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. Terry Pratchett | top
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I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level and have run campaigns or have been deeply involved in grass roots political campaigns and who have actual hands-on experience. Roy Romer | top
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Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. Albert Schweitzer | top
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We shouldn't waste any more time in making sure that democracy is properly rooted in our political life and the supremacy of the law becomes an integral part of our state's structure. Ahmet Necdet Sezner | top
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The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual. Samuel Smiles | top
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The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. Josiah Stamp | top
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Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free. Paul Tillich | top
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Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I've always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching them play. Lee Trevino | top
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Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past. Harry S. Truman | top
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The representation of the tabernacle arose out of the temple of Solomon as its root, in dependence on the sacred ark, for which there is early testimony, and which in the time of David, and also before it, was sheltered by a tent. Julius Wellhausen | top
