Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.[Aristotle] Quote:Lack of money is the root of all evil.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.[George Washington] Quote:Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.[Plato] Quote:Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Definitions of: rootDefinition: To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.Definition: Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely. Definition: The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag. Definition: The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphytic orchids. Definition: An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop. Definition: That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support; that from which anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like. Definition: An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a stem. Definition: A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms employed in language; a word from which other words are formed; a radix, or radical. Definition: The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about; the source. Definition: That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity; thus, 3 is a root of 9, because 3 multiplied into itself produces 9; 3 is the cube root of 27. Definition: The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed. Definition: The lowest place, position, or part. Definition: The time which to reckon in making calculations. Definition: To shout for, or otherwise noisly applaud or encourage, a contestant, as in sports; hence, to wish earnestly for the success of some one or the happening of some event, with the superstitious notion that this action may have efficacy; -- usually with for; as, the crowd rooted for the home team. |
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