A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
Ideas are the root of creation.
No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.
The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.
To be radical is to grasp things by the root.
Of all the objections which have been framed against the federal Constitution, this is perhaps the most extraordinary. Whilst the objection itself is levelled against a pretended oligarchy, the principle of it strikes at the very root of republican government.
Envy is the root of the egalitarian ethos.
If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
A child is the root of the heart.
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings.
Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
"To coach" comes from the root meaning "to bring a person from where they are to where they want to be. "
The noble must make humility his root.
In the 50 years I've spent helping people to overcome illness, disability and disease, it has become crystal clear that poor bowel management lies at the root of most peoples' health problems.
Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
I have said this to explain the stanza that follows, in which the soul replies to those who call in question its holy tranquillity, who will have it wholly occupied with outward duties, that its light may shine before the world: these persons have no conception of the fibres and the unseen root whence the sap is drawn, and which nourish the fruit.
Some things take root in the brain and just don’t let go.