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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. -- George Washington
But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts. -- Daisaku Ikeda
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. -- David Mallet
Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States. -- Emanuel Celler
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. -- Albert Schweitzer
Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil. -- Octavio Paz
I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan. -- Chen Shui-bian
I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past. -- Moshe Safdie
I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy. I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights, and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan. -- Chen Shui-bian
We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root. -- Ronald Reagan
Seeds of discouragement cannot take root in a grateful heart. -- Joel Osteen
The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars. -- Octavia Butler
Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws. -- Charles Kingsley
Some things take root in the brain and just don't let go. -- Tim Seibles
It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here. -- Diana Gabaldon
After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart. -- Andy Andrews
Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath. -- Lucy Freeman
Let the power of yes take root in your heart and transform you life. -- Bryant McGill
We must take root; send out some little fibre at least, even every winter day. -- Henry David Thoreau
Many of us refuse to grow where we are put; consequently, we take root nowhere. -- Oswald Chambers
Be aware of negativity but do not let it take root in the sinews of your creative spirit. -- Bryant McGill
If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once.By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root. -- Toba Beta
marriages do not take root in the presence of witnesses but only in the consciousness of the persons involved. -- Libbie Block
Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops. -- Rudolf Virchow
The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought. -- A.J. Darkholme
Thank God (my wife) and I were both born poorso the concept of fidelity was allowed to take root in us. -- Allan Wolf
The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them. -- Joseph Henry
When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive. -- Ruth Simmons
It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They're so hard to pull. And grow back so easily. -- Wendelin Van Draanen
Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossombut only if you plant the seeds. -- Steve Maraboli
A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Our gracious God, we need the ministry of the Spirit of God within our lives so that Your Word may take root within us. -- Alistair Begg
Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom, but only if you plant the seeds. -- Steve Maraboli
Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom...but only if you plant the seeds. -- Steve Maraboli
To permit surveillance to take root on the Internet would mean subjecting virtually all forms of human interaction, planning, and even thought itself to comprehensive state examination. -- Glenn Greenwald
We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them. -- Mao Zedong
The pain that comes from deep love makes your love more fruitful. It is like a plow that breaks the ground to allow the seed to take root. -- Henri Nouwen
Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A new model is starting to take root and grow, one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more power to guide these choices. I call this emerging model The Mesh. -- Lisa Gansky
People who have drawn wealth into their lives used The Secret, whether consciously or unconsciously. They think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and they do allow any contradictory thoughts to take root in their minds. -- Rhonda Byrne
Currents of energy shimmer through our bodies. Like shooting stars, we rocket through spacious stillness. But this silent, unmoving background is nothing like the granite ideas we use trying to take root in groundless soil. -- Anthony Lawlor
A new model is starting to take root and grow, one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more power to guide these choices. I call this emerging model 'The Mesh.' -- Lisa Gansky
Your life is a reflection of your past thoughts. That includes all the great things, and all the things you consider not so great... Think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and do not allow any contradictory thoughts to take root. -- Rhonda Byrne
The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of Manet, Millet and others, I understood why my alliance with Russia and Russian art did not take root. -- Marc Chagall
We must teach our children that the preservation of liberty, and of an order of society conducive to human dignity, requires that a free people retain the moral and material means to discipline its own government, should the temptation to tyranny take root. -- Alan Keyes
Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have a sound historical or rational basis, but because they are found in practice to give the faithful a sense of sacred transcendence. -- Karen Armstrong
Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Lovers and even some family members may come and go but the friendships that take root abide. Sometimes the best of what is true survives as if it had an independent will: The coals of friendship keep themselves alive until something happens to rekindle them. -- Joan Frank
Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Your thoughts are certain kinds of seeds in your life. You can water them and allow them to grow on fertile soil. Or, you can let them diminish and wither amongst the weeds. Be careful that your seeds are not contaminated as they begin to take root. -- Amaka Imani Nkosazana
..., imagine a loamy earth that starts with genocide, then adds a mix of further disease, wars, hurricanes, murder, great fires, dueling, insurrection and slavery, just to name a few of the many instances of tragedy. What dark seed would take root in such a disturbed and twisted soil? -- James Caskey
More hearts are breaking in this world of ours Than one would say. In distant villages And solitudes remote, where winds have wafted The barbed seeds of love, or birds of passage Scattered them in their flight, do they take root, And grow in silence, and in silence perish. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred and intolerance are allowed to take root. And we know that education and hope are the most effective ways to combat ignorance and despair. -- Gabrielle Giffords
Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pine-trees which take root in, and frown over the rifts of the scathed and petrified heart, and are chiefly nourished by the rain of unavailing tears, and the vapors of fancy. -- John Frederick Boyes
The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem. -- Suze Orman
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. -- Josiah Stamp
As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product will be proprietary and interdependent in character. -- Clayton M. Christensen
My friend is a former race car driver, so he races for Mercedes, and I root for him. I have a car that I love to race, I'll take it to the track. -- Hill Harper
I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up. -- Evan Hunter
A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or business model that takes root in a tier of the market that is unattractive to the established leaders in an industry. -- Clayton M. Christensen
Most of us know nothing about constitutional law, so it's hardly surprising that we take sides in the Obamacare debate the way we root for the Red Sox or the Yankees. Loyalty to the team is what matters. -- Paul Bloom
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot. -- Stephen Root
Storms make oaks take deeper root. -- George Herbert
Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves. -- Confucius
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation. -- Moliere
He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard. -- Louisa May Alcott
Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root. -- Loren Eiseley

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