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The beet must be uprooted. -- Roland Freisler
The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. -- Gloria Steinem
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. -- Vladimir Lenin
I don't believe I could live in Iran again. A tree, once uprooted from the earth, is very difficult to plant again. -- Golshifteh Farahani
Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument. -- Emile Durkheim
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically. -- Robert Mugabe
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 uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture. -- Iain McGilchrist
Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on October 29th, 1949. With my brother Adolfas, we wanted to make a film about displaced persons, how one feels being uprooted from one's home. -- Jonas Mekas
I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. I uprooted it rashly and felt as if I had been committing an outrage, so I planted it again. -- Dorothy Wordsworth
What is well planted will not be uprooted. -- Laozi
If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you. -- Gautama Buddha
The plant that's been uprooted has only courage to hold it up. -- Marty Rubin
The people of Israel have come home never to be uprooted again, -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others. -- Simone Weil
For your love I have uprooted all my desires, I am no more demanding... -- Seema Gupta
I'm being uprooted," Dino said. "You're being transplanted," Viv replied, "and to a better home. -- Stuart Woods
The finance enchains with golden bonds states and peoples, the economy becomes nomadic, the life uprooted. -- Alfred Rosenberg
Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend. -- Wallace Stegner
Some trees are too deeply rooted to move "¦ And if they are uprooted, they will die"¦ -- Jocelyn Murray
Grace has uprooted us from a barren wilderness of sin and transplanted us by streams of living water. -- Steven J Lawson
As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned. -- Robert Graves
When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences. -- Anais Nin
Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe. -- D. H. Lawrence
The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth! -- Juan Ramon Jimenez
I uprooted my life from Australia and came over to America with the idea of pursuing my acting career. I wasn't really sure where I would end up. I threw caution to the wind. -- Penelope Mitchell
I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure. -- Marquis de Sade
Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted. -- George Amos Dorsey
I'm not religious, and I feel that has to do with me being uprooted so many times in my life that I've explored many religions and sentiments from many different families basically across the globe. -- Masiela Lusha

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