#root

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them. ↗

— John Hawkes

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#close #economics #kin #religion #root

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#another #caresses #die #expressions #leaves

I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#i #life #mexican #pride #represent

Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them. ↗

— Joseph Henry

#constantly #discoveries #floating #great #minds

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots. ↗

— George Herbert

#grow #make #oak #roots #storms

But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#carefully #dragging #give #homeland #jews

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#doubt #knowledge #rather #root #than

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds. ↗

— Thomas W. Higginson

#corner #current #found #his #merely

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success. ↗

— Jim Hightower

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