Rooted

Famous quotes containing the word rooted:

    “But I would emphasize again that social and economic solutions, as such, will not avail to satisfy the aspirations of the people unless they conform with the traditions of our race, deeply grooved in their sentiments through a century and a half of struggle for ideals of life that are rooted in religion and fed from purely spiritual springs.”
    —Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)

    “Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down, does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy.”
    —Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

    “If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)