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quotes by topic Roots

" My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back. "

Support , Roots , Pride , Gratitude

" If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you. "

Bryant H. McGill

Behavior , Roots , Looks

" Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves. "

Roots , Care , Branches

" Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table. "

Roots , stars , Cutting

" Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don’t want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots. "

Roots

" You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you feel a surge of cosmic exaltation, like the clear light of the heavens... . And you, too, seem to be taking root in the soil which you are digging, to be nourished by the rays of the sun, to share life with the tiniest blade of grass, with each flower; living in nature's depths, you seem then to rise and grow into the vast expanse of the universe. "

Land , Roots , Flower

" A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. "

C. Northcote Parkinson

Roots , Flower

" 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. "

D. Todd Christofferson

Struggle , Roots , Discipline

" The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man. "

Philosophy , Roots

Support , Roots , Pride , Gratitude