As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in truth, that imagination is of value, that happy endings do, in fact, occur, and that the blue spring mist that make an ugly street look beautiful is just as real a thing as the street itself.
America is not an ethnostate. We are not rooted in blood and soil.
Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause.
Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.
Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in double dawns; tossing tumultuously under vast suns of jade green and balas-ruby orange; swaying and weltering in rich twilights, in aurora-curtained nights, they resembled fields of rooted serpents that dance eternally to an other-worldly music.
I'm homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose.
I grew up playing classical guitar, so everything I learned was rooted in technique, form, presentation.
I cannot imagine how any diplomat, or any dramatist, could improve on (Ronald Reagan's) words to Mikhail Gorbachev at the Geneva summit: 'Let me tell you why it is we distrust you. ' Those words are candid and tough and they cannot have been easy to hear. But they are also a clear invitation to a new beginning and a new relationship that would be rooted in trust.
Being 'one flesh' in marriage means that the relationship is not the source of security, affirmation, control, or value. Those issues of identity need to be rooted in Christ.
This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.
A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays.
Leadership is an active, living process. It is rooted in character, forged by experience, and communicated by example.
You are a cosmic happening rooted in a local event, NOT the other way around.
Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.
Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.
When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I've always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs.