Best roots & enough Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social, political and emotional commitments to a place, I have to find another place.”

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

“We take ourselves way too seriously, and we don't take God seriously enough. It is not by accident that humor and humility come from the same root word. If you can laugh at yourself, you'll always have plenty of good material.”

Ifs Way Enough Laughing Humility Materials Roots Accidents Plenty Laugh At Yourself

Author:Rick Warren

“I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.”

Trying Long Enough Given Women Mystery Roots Mere Squares Quantity Introduction Given Up Square Roots

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)

“Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket -- not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing.”

People Way Enough Moments Hands Lying Money Roots Fishes Soil Shakes Chickens Baskets Hacked Beets

Book:Tales of Neveryeon

Source: Tales of Neveryeon

“At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character--an assault that assumes that we are not good enough to be free, and that aims to make sure that we are no longer strong enough, courageous enough, disciplined enough to be a free people.”

People Enough Character Facts Strong Liberty Roots Aim Assuming Courageous Good Enough Assault Strong Enough Not Good Enough

Author:Alan Keyes

“endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be a harsh and bitter root in one's life, bearing poisonous and gloomy fruit, destroying other lives. Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.”

Ifs Doe Enough Joy Acceptance Sorrow Roots Fruit Endure Accepted Bitter Endurance Destroying Harsh Alchemy Gloomy Poisonous

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant a virtue in its place; otherwise he will have his labor to renew. A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing.”

Should Trying May Littles Made Enough Energy Strong Virtue Produce Cost Labor Roots Constitution Difficulty Plant Vices Soil Weed Wheat

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere; Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough; Sweet is the eglantine, but stiketh nere; Sweet is the firbloome, but its braunches rough; Sweet is the cypress, but its rynd is tough; Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill; Sweet is the broome-flowre, but yet sowre enough; And sweet is moly, but his root is ill.”

Enough Grows Growing Up Sweet Tough Roots Rose Ill Bitter Rough Nuts Pills Cypresses

Author:Edmund Spenser

“Whoever takes it upon himself to write an honest intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe will need a strong stomach. But he will need something more. He will need to overcome his disgust long enough to ponder the roots of this strange and puzzling phenomenon.”

Needs Writing Long Enough Strong Century Honest Strange Intellectual Europe Roots Overcoming Phenomenon Stomach Disgusting Twentieth Century Pondering Puzzling

Author:Mark Lilla

“What we men share is the experience of having been raised by women in a culture that stopped our fathers from being close enough to teach us how to be men, in a world in which men were discouraged from talking about our masculinity and questioning its roots and its mystique, in a world that glorified masculinity and gave us impossibly unachievable myths of masculine heroics, but no domestic models to teach us how to do it.”

Men World Enough Culture Father Talking Teach Share Models Roots Raised Myth Questioning Masculinity Masculine Discouraged Be A Man Our Father Mystique

Author:Frank Pittman

“The most rapid way to change a root thought, or sponsoring idea, is to reverse the thought-word-deed process. Do the deed that you want to have the new thought about. Then say the words that you want to have your new thought about. Do this often enough and you'll train the mind to think a new way.”

Thinking Way Want Inspirational Mind Ideas Enough Process Religious Roots Train Deeds New Ways Reverse Rapids New Thought Conversations With God

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“To separate from my culture (as from my family) I had to feel competent enough on the outside and secure enough inside to live life on my own. Yet in leaving home I did not lose touch with my origins because lo mexicano is in my system. I am a turtle, wherever I go I carry 'home' on my back.”

Feels Enough Home Culture Loses My Own Roots My Family Leaving Secure Live Life Competent Turtles Leaving Home

Author:Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.”

“In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us - that we be men and women of prayer, people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough. That is the root of peace. We have that peace when the gracious God is all we seek. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.”

People Men Enough Asks Loses Prayer One Thing Men And Women Roots Essence Seeking Be A Man Gracious

Book:The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

“I'm staunch. If you are lucky enough to be able to play for your country, it seems to make you even prouder of your roots and origins, and to me that's Wellington.”

Ifs Country Enough Play Seems Able Lucky Roots Wellington

Author:Murray Mexted

“Seventy-six percent of the American people say we have a spiritual problem in our country. That's great, because now they understand the root of the problem is not that we haven't passed enough laws; rather, the root of the problem is in terms of our social value system.”

People Country Enough Problem Spiritual Law Values Social Term Havens Six Percent Roots Our Country Seventies Value Systems Social Values

Author:Charles Colson

“Most people would rather change their circumstances to improve their lives when instead they need to change themselves to improve their circumstances. They put in just enough effort to distance themselves from their problems without ever trying to go after the root, which can often be found in themselves. Because they don't try to change the source of their problems, their problems keep coming back at them.”

People Needs Trying Enough Problem Found Effort Source Circumstances Roots Distance Coming Back Need A Change Often Is

Author:John C. Maxwell

“The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we want a liberty of our own different from thine.”

Want Different Enough Liberty Roots Thee Rebellion

Book:George MacDonald: an anthology

Source: George MacDonald: an anthology

“I'm hoping to know and teach a Gospel that is true to Scripture - and the Gospel that I see in the Bible is COSMIC (big enough to redeem all of Creation) and RELATIONAL (getting at the root of the Fall - the loss of our relational capacities).”

Knows Enough Bigs Fall Loss Teach Creation Capacity Roots Scripture Cosmic

Author:Peter Robinson

“I didn't truly understand the depth of my roots until I was old enough to wonder and care.”

Enough Care Wonder Roots Depth

Author:Aeriel Miranda

“I started realizing that one of the great things about opera is that if you make the right kind of story, you can still have this kind of abstract subliminal quality to take you on a journey, but you can root it just enough in a particular situation, a particular kind of real situation that a person might have, or a particular context in the real world.”

Ifs World Kind Persons Stills Real Enough Stories Might Realizing Quality Situation Journey Particular Roots Great Things Abstract Real World Opera Subliminal

Author:Tod Machover

“Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.”

Mean Enough Strong Break Support Seeing Tree Balance Circumstances Roots Faster Continuing Flexible Strong Enough Trunks Support Me Pushovers

Author:Brenda Strong

“I believe in the American people. It's - I believe in trusting them, I believe in empowering them, and I think, at the end of the day, the only force strong enough to change the course we're on is the grass roots across the country.”

People Thinking Believe Ends Country Enough Courses Strong Force I Believe Roots I Believe In Grass Empowering The End Of The Day Strong Enough

Author:Ted Cruz

“[Paul McCartney] never, at the time, was going back to leaning back on the roots of his old band. He always built upon where he was, which was in London. And he didn't overuse synthesizers. He used them just enough. It's such a cool sound.”

Enough Used Sound Band Built Roots London Synthesizers Leaning Back

Author:Fred Armisen

“Oddly enough, my mother was born in Southampton. I have roots in Southampton, Bridgehampton, Sag Harbor. My grandfather, her father, Stefano Rullo, when he came from Naples, he went to Pennsylvania and worked coal mines.”

Enough Mother Father Born Mines Roots Grandfather Coal My Grandfather Harbors Pennsylvania Naples Southampton

Author:Robert Davi

“The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.”

Enough Evil Roots

Author:Gene Simmons

“To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field; Odours that rise When the spade wounds the root of tree, Rose, currant, raspberry, or goutweed, Rhubarb or celery; The smoke's smell, too, Flowing from where a bonfire burns The dead, the waste, the dangerous, And all to sweetness turns. It is enough To smell, to crumble the dark earth, While the robin sings over again Sad songs of Autumn mirth." - A poem called DIGGING.”

Source: Selected Poems of Edward Thomas

“‎"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey”

Ifs Enough Helping Nature Tree Deserve Roots Wings Immortality Vulture Abbey

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers.”

Ifs War Enough Helping Suffering Friendship Silence Loneliness Flower Roots Distance Mere Endure Confusion Sickness Powerless Imprisonment Funny Friend

Author:Pam Brown

“When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the plants and whether they're getting enough water and if their roots are deep enough. Soil under the fingernails, grapes being trampled under bare feet, fingers sticky from handling fresh fruit. It's that green stripe you get around the sole of your shoes when you mow the lawn. Life in the age to come. Earthy.”

Ifs Enough Age Water Attention Growing Feet Roots Green Plant Fingers Fruit Shoes Soil Sole Hook Grapes Lawns Spears Cultivating Stripes Sticky Fingernails Pruning Bare Feet Trimming

Author:Rob Bell

“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.”

“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.”

“Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you.”

Thinking Heart Long Enough Science Hate Grows Roots Filled Hate You No Fear Good Will Have No Fear Goliath

Author:George Washington Carver

“At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an intersection of time, space, light, and emotional stance. One needs to be still enough, observant enough, and aware enough to recognize the life of the materials, to be able to 'hear through the eyes'.”

Needs Art Stills Enough Light Eye Able Space Creativity Emotional Materials Photography Roots Photographer Details Impulse Make Sense Stance Through The Eyes Intersections Observant

Book:New England Days

Source: New England Days

“He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.”

Should Trying Enough Energy Change Virtue Integrity Ethics Roots Plant Vices Positive Energy Vice And Virtue

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“I think maybe God was trying to tell me that gentleness begins with strength, quietness with security. A great tree is both moved and unmoved, for it changes with the seasons, but its roots keep it anchored in the ground. Mastering a gentle and quiet spirit didn’t mean changing my personality, just regaining control of it, growing strong enough to hold back and secure enough to soften.”

Source: A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband

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