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«Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.»
«Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body.»
«All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renenwed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.»
«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.»
«Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.»
Author: Theodore Roethke (Poet) | Keywords: roots
«Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.»
«Deep roots are not reached by frost.»
«April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.»
«But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; / Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.»
«First the stalk - then the roots. First the need - then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus - then the elements needed for its growth.»

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