Best roots & wind Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When a tree has been transplanted, though fierce winds may blow, it will not topple if it has a firm stake to hold it up. But even a tree that has grown up in place may fall over if its roots are weak.”

Ifs May Has Beens Fall Tree Strength Wind Roots Weak Blow Firm Stakes Fierce

Book:The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

Source: The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

“Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.”

Grows Tree Wind Roots Palms Palm Trees Zion

Book:Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition

Source: Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition

“Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation.”

“When God gives a promise, He always tries our faith. Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind, so faith takes a firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.”

Giving Trying Struggle Tree Wind Promise Roots Appearance Adverse Contending

Book:Additional Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Late Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee: Consisting of Various Sermons and Lectures Delivered by Him in the Course of His Ministry

Source: Additional Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Late Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee: Consisting of Various Sermons and Lectures Delivered by Him in the Course of His Ministry

“A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.”

Knows Made Dream Seems Courses Lost Nature Dark Sun Tree Color Wind Bird Rain Roots Presses Clouds Warm Storm Rising Soil Afternoon Juice Nests Plunge Tranquil Sap Elementals Fermentation

Author:Jacques Roumain

“The aged oak upon the steep stands more firm and secure if assailed by angry winds; for if the winter bares its head, the more strongly it strikes its roots into the ground, acquiring strength as it loses beauty.”

Ifs Loses Wind Roots Angry Winter Strikes Secure Firm Oaks Steep Firmness

Author:Pietro Metastasio

“E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain, Oft have I seen the war of winds contend, And prone on earth th' infuriate storm descend, Waste far and wide, and by the roots uptorn, The heavy harvest sweep through ether borne, As light straw and rapid stubble fly In dark'ning whirlwinds round the wintry sky.”

War Light Earth Dark Sky Wind Waste Roots Rounds Heavy Storm Wide Golden Grain Agriculture Harvest Rapids Stalking Straws Pluck

Book:Virgil

Source: Virgil

“We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.”

Needs Self Values Evil Christ Tears Wind Exercise Roots Glorious Dependence Rotten Tempest

Book:Strengthen My Spirit

Source: Strengthen My Spirit

“The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.”

Beautiful Tree Wind Roots Stronger Deeper

Book:Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life

Source: Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life

“Through much of the last century, America's faith in freedom and democracy was a rock in a raging sea. Now it is a seed upon the wind, taking root in many nations.”

Lasts America Nations Democracy Sea Rocks Century Wind Roots Seeds Rage

Author:George W. Bush

“The storms will come and the winds will rise and the gusts will threaten to pull you from your roots. Let the winds come. Let them rage and know that you will not break in the breeze, you will bend. Bend. Always bend because you are made of more strength than you know, because you are better than the breaking.”

Knows Made Motivational Break Wind Roots Storm Rage Breeze

Book:Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

Source: Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!”

Looks Kind Today Earth Artist Turns Stuff White Wonder Fire Player Influence Wind Band Draws Roots Average Radio Parliament Ohio

Author:Donny Osmond

“Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.”

People Doe Said Facts Stories Wish Grows Bits Wind Roots Gold Fruit Spread Seeds Believer Soil Convince Rumor Glitter Scrap Fertile Fertile Soil

Book:Phantom

Source: Phantom

“Well, now If little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you Little by little If suddenly you forget me Do not look for me For I shall already have forgotten you If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots Remember That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms And my roots will set off to seek another land”

Source: The Captain's Verses: Love Poems

“Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.”

Asks Grows Tree Wind Offers Safe Shadow Roots Green Plant Rounds Delight Ruins Decay Lightning Jane Lighting Vigorous Props Freshness Orchard Chestnuts Rochester

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all arise together. My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.”

Thinking Men Years Children Ends Hands Together Names Stars Water Secret Sun Tree Wind Source Spring Roots Distance Shining Arise Crafts Candle Unborn Syllables Wizardry Unborn Child

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind.”

Lying Girl Three Tree Wind Hair Arms Sitting Roots Legs Weeping Shaking Tangled Arms And Legs

Book:Forest Born

Source: Forest Born

“Within its gates I heard the sound Of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought To whisper what their roots had found. (“A Dream of Fear”)”

Dream Found Sound Heard Wind Roots Caught Gates Caverns Cypresses Tresses

Book:A Wine of Wizardry: And Other Poems

Source: A Wine of Wizardry: And Other Poems

“Branches grew from his hands, his hair. His thoughts tangled like roots in the ground. He strained upward. Pitch ran like tears down his back. His name formed his core; ring upon ring of silence built around it. His face rose high above the forests. Gripped to earth, bending to the wind's fury, he disappeared within himself, behind the hard, wind-scrolled shield of his experiences.”

Hard Hands Earth Faces Names Behinds Silence Tears Wind Hair Grew Built Roots Rose Core Rings Forests Ran Branches Fury Shields Tangled Bending

Book:Riddle-Master

Source: Riddle-Master

“Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things. Their language has been lost. But not the gestures.”

Inspirational Giving Has Beens Song Names Lost Language Grows Secret Tree Wind All Things Roots Gestures Bark Trunks Olden Days

Author:Vera Nazarian

“dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the seas catch fire (and live by love though the stars walk backward) honour the past but welcome the future (and dance your death away at this wedding) never mind a world with its villains or heroes (for god likes girls and tomorrow and the earth)”

Ifs World Mind Heart May Dream Earth Past Girl Stars Walks Fire Tree Sea Wind Hero Tomorrow Roots Likes Welcome Live By Honour Villain Slogans Trust Your Heart

Author:e. e. cummings

“Through wind, and tempest, storm, and rain; The calm shall be buried inside of me; A warm stone, heavy and dry; The root, the source, a weapon against pain”

Pain Wind Source Weapons Rain Stones Roots Calm Heavy Warm Storm Dry Buried Tempest

Book:Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

“A forest," William said, his expression distant. "Where the ground is dry soil and stone. Where tall trees grow and centuries of autumn carpet their roots. Where the wind smells of game and wildflowers." "Why, that was lovely, Lord Bill. Do you ever write poetry? Something for your blueblood lady?" "No." "She doesn't like poetry?" "Leave it." Hehe. "Oh, so you have a lady. How interes--”

Writing Said Games Grows Lord Tree Century Expression Wind Stones Roots Bills Smell Lovely Forests Dry Soil Autumn Tall Carpet Wildflowers Tall Trees

Book:Bayou Moon

Source: Bayou Moon

“Our love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that's why the clay and the flower, the mud and the roots know your name.”

Knows Earth Night Names Born Wind Flower Wall Roots Our Love Mud Clay

Book:The Captain's Verses: Love Poems

Source: The Captain's Verses: Love Poems

“Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.”

Christian Fall Heaven Wind Flower Garden Roots Hard Times Godly Dew

Book:Christian Behaviour: A Holy Life, the Beauty of Christianity, the Fear of God, and an Exhortation to Unity and Peace to which is Added a Caution Against Sin

Source: Christian Behaviour: A Holy Life, the Beauty of Christianity, the Fear of God, and an Exhortation to Unity and Peace to which is Added a Caution Against Sin

“Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.”

Should History Wind Roots Criticism South East Knives

Book:Emerson: A Modern Anthology

Source: Emerson: A Modern Anthology

“No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.”

Tree Wind Roots Plant Meaningful Valleys Fragile Rooted Sunny Sturdy

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness. The storm loosens the earth round its roots so the tree is able to get its roots deeper into the earth, where it receives fresh supplies of nourishment. But only much later will it be seen to bring forth better fruit. So corruptions and temptations develop the roots of humility, self-abasement and mourning in a deeper search for that grace by which holiness grows strong. But only later will there be visible fruits of increased holiness.”

“Look upon yourself as a tree planted beside the water, which bears its fruit in due season; the more it is shaken by the wind, the deeper it strikes its roots into the ground.”

Looks Suffering Water Tree Wind Bears Roots Seasons Fruit Deeper Dues Strikes Look Up

Author:Margaret Mary Alacoque

“Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining in the wind, The boughs drink in new beauty and the trunk Sends down a deeper root on the windward side. Only the soul that knows the mighty grief Can know the mighty rapture, Sorrows come To stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.”

Knows Wells Heart May Soul Joy Sides Space Grief Wind Victory Sorrow Drink Glory Roots Defeat Deeper Shakes Oaks Rapture Trunks

Author:Edwin Markham

“I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going to cut off my view of the sky. . . . Flying got into my soul instantly but the answer as to why must be found somewhere back in the mystic maze of my birth and childhood and the circumstances of my earlier life. Whatever I am is elemental and the beginnings of it all have their roots in Sawdust Road. I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and stars.”

“Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind; so faith takes firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.”

Christian Struggle Tree Wind Roots Appearance Christian Inspirational Adverse Contending

Book:Additional Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Late Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee: Consisting of Various Sermons and Lectures Delivered by Him in the Course of His Ministry

Source: Additional Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Late Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee: Consisting of Various Sermons and Lectures Delivered by Him in the Course of His Ministry

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