#root

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#bloom #fade #feel #full #know

I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot. ↗

— Donnie Wahlberg

#any #auditions #before #big #big movie

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#gifts #give #greatest #greatest gifts #independence

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#agreements #bloodshed #both #both sides #courage

And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And I thought I can't be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore. ↗

— Sela Ward

#been #children #explore #feel #his way

And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#debt #economy #fairness #future #grow

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. ↗

— George Washington

#growth #liberty #plant #rapid #rapid growth

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. ↗

— Simone Weil

#human soul #important #least #most #need

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded. ↗

— Simone Weil

#becoming #cannot #catholic #centuries #christian

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions. ↗

— Orson Welles

#christmas #christmas tree #come #died #fall