Rootage Quotes & Sayings

Love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together. — Emily Giffin

Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has lost his rootage in the land assumes that he has already discovered what is important; it is such who prate of empires, political or economic, that will last a thousand years. It is only the scholar who appreciates that all history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values. It is only the scholar who understands why the raw wilderness gives definition and meaning to the human enterprise. — Aldo Leopold

I'm not very eccentric. I wear more conservative clothes, though I do like mini-skirts. — Sandrine Bonnaire

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage. — Woodrow Wilson

I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies. — Ginny Brown-Waite

Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them. — Melina Marchetta

It's scoring goals that's great, whether against Brazil or anybody else. — Lionel Messi

In Craig Blomberg's survey of the Mosaic laws of gleaning, releasing, tithing, and the Jubilee, he concludes that the Biblical attitude toward wealth and possessions does not fit into any of the normal categories of democratic capitalism, or of traditional monarchial feudalism, or of state socialism. The rules for the use of land in the Biblical laws challenge all major contemporary economic models. They "suggest a sharp critique of 1) the statism that disregards the precious treasure of personal rootage, and 2) the untrammeled individualism which secures individuals at the expense of community."38 — Timothy Keller

You want me to lie to you? said McKay. I shrugged. Why not? I didn't mind lies. — Alice Hoffman

Once Everest was determined to be the highest summit on earth, it was only a matter of time before people decided that Everest needed to be climbed. — Jon Krakauer

You don't?' Horst was so astounded he almost leapt to his feet. His smile returned in full power. 'Then you have treat waiting for you! It's wonderful! I mean, I remember it as being wonderful. I do not eat cake. Not now. Being a vampire and everything. You did know I'm a vampire, didn't you?' He suddenly seemed to remember that they were doing introductions and held up his hand. 'Horst Cabal, vampire. Didn't especially want to be, but there you go. I miss Battenberg. Hello, everyone! — Jonathan L. Howard