Quotes with rooted

  • No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
  • My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
  • The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
  • When we're looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.
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  • Joseph Conrad Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • C. J. Mahaney Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
    C. J. Mahaney
    American Christian minister (1953 - )
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  • Ann Beattie Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient - perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Al Gore I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • James Russell Lowell It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Jean Rostand It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Bayard Rustin My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Plato No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Barbara Jordan Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Middleton Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Bell Hooks The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Bill Hybels The idea that God doesn't care about his children is rooted in a lie, plain and simple.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Bodhidharma The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Alva Myrdal The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Alice Walker The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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