#root

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it! ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#brain #cling #coral #eats #finds

I didn't get nervous when I ran, but I get nervous watching other people now. I root for anybody with a USA on their chest. ↗

— Gail Devers

#chest #get #i #nervous #now

If people perceive you as a good actor then they'll wish for you to be a good actor and they'll root for you when they watch you, but if you come out and you're going to clubs every night people don't root for you anymore. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#anymore #clubs #come #every #every night

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#consider #evil #generally #inventors #people

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#else #everything #grow #included #mind

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#anger #delusion #evils #greed #ignorant

There is nothing like playing for the team you grew up rooting for. ↗

— Milton Bradley

#like #nothing #playing #rooting #team

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#catharsis #expressed #grassroots #history #how

If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice. ↗

— Jimmy Fallon

#choice #fan #girlfriend #kind #like

I became a Yankees fan for a few years. But now, I gotta say, I'm really rooting for the Red Sox. ↗

— Jimmy Fallon

#fan #few #gotta #i #now