He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
Chanakya

Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.
Marvin Harris

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
William Wordsworth

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Thomas Moore

I always root for the defense.
Wellington Mara

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
Molly Ivins

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.
Rick Schroder

I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind.
Maria Mitchell

I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.
Chen Shui-bian

I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan.
Judd Nelson

I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.
Wallace Shawn

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
Norman Mailer

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.
Kato Kaelin

I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.
Paul Tagliabue

I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values are offended by some of the things I hear on programs like "Rush Limbaugh," and we don't have to put up with that.
Howard Dean

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
Alan Bennett

Ideas are the root of creation.
Ernest Dimnet

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
Hannah More

If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.
Eleanor Clift

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.
Donald E. Westlake