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The Roots

«Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine Kind words and kind deeds»
«Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.»
«And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: dried-up, fig, fig tree, The Roots
«And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: spreading, sprig, stature, The Roots
«He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: The Rock, The Roots
«But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; / Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.»
«I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality. Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us.»
«I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.»
«If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.»
«First the stalk - then the roots. First the need - then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus - then the elements needed for its growth.»

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