Root Quotes

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

– George Bernard Shaw

The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch.

– Julius Streicher

When one has taken root, one puts out branches.

– Jules Verne

Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.

– Ieyasu Tokugawa

Radical simply means ‘grasping things at the root.’

– Angela Davis

There seemed to be endless obstacles… it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

– Marion Milner

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

– Plato

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

– Gilbert Parker

Ideas are the root of creation.

– Ernest Dimnet

At first, it’s unfamiliar, then it strikes root.

– Fernando Pessoa

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

– Paul Tillich

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

– Francis Bacon

Do we root for Michael Corleone in the ‘Godfather’ films? I think so, even if he is a monster.

– Jacques Audiard

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

– Maynard James Keenan

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

– Rush Limbaugh

I always root for the defense.

– Wellington Mara

Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself.

– Soren Kierkegaard

After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.

– Yo-Yo Ma

Pain is the root of knowledge.

– Simone Veil

Root for the girls who wear dresses and are intellectually very strong.

– Sophie Turner