#root

It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#back #before #come #ever #going

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#general #general principles #leaves #principles #root

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#deep #good #ground #grow #hope

The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#activists #barack #barack obama #because #country

Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values. ↗

— Samuel Dash

#american values #assaults #brink #constitution #declaration

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#because #chaos #dangerous #hysterical #idealism

The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all. ↗

— Peter Davison

#getting #head #makes #more #people

We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#being #blown #could #every #family

I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values are offended by some of the things I hear on programs like "Rush Limbaugh," and we don't have to put up with that. ↗

— Howard Dean

#frankly #hear #hypocrisy #i #like

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#evil #poverty #root #snares #worst